text: OverviewBack to top Divine - Milk Chocolate Bar Orange - 3.5 oz. Item# :113046UPC# :898596001705 Brand:Divine Size/Form:3.50 oz. Ship Weight:0.66 Servings:2.50 Dosage:42 Gram(s) Flavor:Orange Divine - Milk Chocolate Bar Orange - 3.5 oz. (100 g) Divine Orange Milk Chocolate Bar combines smooth and creamy milk chocolate with a natural orange flavor. Suitable for vegetarians. Free from artificial flavorings, colorings and preservatives. Fairtrade sugar, Fairtrade cocoa butter, Dried cream, Fairtrade cocoa mass, Whole milk powder, Emulsifier: soya lecithin (non GM), Natural orange flavor, Fairtrade vanilla. Choosing Divine as your chocolate treat is a delicious way of playing your part in a more equitable trading partnership. Divine is the only Fairtrade chocolate company which is 45% owned by the farmers. While Fairtrade ensures farmers receive a better deal for their cocoa and additional income to invest in their community, company ownership gives farmers a share of Divine's profits and a stronger voice in the cocoa industry. That's good business! The History of Cocoa Theobroma cacao, or as it is more commonly known, cocoa is indigenous to the Amazon Basin and tropical areas of South and Central America and was first cultivated there over 2000 years ago. It formed the basis of fascinating rituals and social systems throughout the "New World." The Mayans believed cocoa to be the food of the gods and it was one of their most important sacred plants. Cocoa also served as currency: you could buy a slave for 100 nibs (cocoa beans), a rabbit for four nibs, or the favours of a women for ten nibs. Cocoa was first introduced to Europe in the fifteenth century by Christopher Columbus who brought some back to Spain after his travels in the "New World." It was heavily taxed and therefore remained a drink exclusive to the upper classes. The Spanish kept the secrets of cocoa to themselves for over a century and when Francis Drake captured Spanish galleons at sea, his crew threw the sacks of cocoa beans overboard, thinking them useless. In Britain a wealthy "cafe society" grew up around the luxurious chocolate houses, where the Jacobean landed gentry met to drink hot chocolate. In 1828 Coenraad van Houten, a Dutchman, invented the cocoa press which extracted the cocoa powder from the cocoa butter. The powder made a smoother drink and the butter, when combined with more cocoa powder and sugar, made the first chocolate. This revolutionised the cocoa industry. Cadbury's invested in the machine and is credited with producing the first chocolate bar in 1842. They made chocolate an affordable treat. What had been an exclusive pastime for the upper classes became a mass market product in the form of bars and boxes of chocolates with flavoured centres. In fact, throughout the 19th Century enterprising Quakers attempted to turn poorer working class people away from "Dutch" gin to the "more nourishing and healthy alternative" of chocolate and cocoa. In 1875 Daniel Peters, a Swiss man, added Henri Nestles condensed milk to chocolate and the two men are accredited with the invention of milk chocolate. The expansion in consumption, combined with the labour shortages due to short life expectancy on Brazilian cocoa plantations, led to the gradual expansion of production, into the Caribbean and mainland Africa by the late 1870s. Divine Chocolate Frequently Asked Questions What do the Kuapa farmers get out of their relationship with Divine? Divine is made with cocoa bought from Kuapa Kokoo at the Fair Trade price of $1600/tonne. In addition, Kuapa Kokoo receives a $150 per tonne Fair Trade social premium that is invested into community projects such as building schools, providing clean drinking water, mobile medical clinics and women's income generations projects. When the world cocoa prices goes above the $1600 per tonne Fair Trade price, they pay the world price, plus the $150 per tonne social premium. Additionally, a percentage of Divine's gross sales goes towards producer support and development which Kuapa Kokoo spends on farmer education, and helping to maintain the values and vision of the cooperative as it grows, especially its commitment to democracy. And as owners the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo receive a percentage of dividend distribution when the company declares a profit. In the UK, Divine Chocolate was able to distribute dividends for the first time in 2007. Divine in the US looks forward to the day when they can follow the lead of our sister company in the UK. Of equally important but less tangible value, their ownership stake in Divine gives farmers a seat at the table of global trade. Their brand is their voice is the marketplace and allows them to tell their story to consumers and retailers alike. Is Divine suitable for vegetarians? All Divine Chocolate bars are suitable for vegetarians. Could Divine be made more healthy? Divine chocolate is made with the best of everything - top quality cocoa, natural cocoa butter and vanilla - and that is what makes it so good and delicious. Any attempt to reduce the fat or sugar or replace ingredients with synthetic alternatives would mean creating an inferior product that fewer people would enjoy. Divine's aim is to make the best chocolate containing only natural ingredients that most people can enjoy as a treat, as part of a balanced diet. Is Divine nut-free? None of the Divine products can be guaranteed totally nut-free as the factory where they are made handles nuts. Is Divine organic? At present, there is no national program for organic certification of cocoa in Ghana. Cocoa is very prone to disease which can quickly spread and wipe out huge areas of cocoa production. This in turn would seriously endanger the livelihoods of thousands of small-scale cocoa farmers and threatened the larger Ghanaian economy. Until enough testing of organically approved pesticides have been completed in Ghana, introducing organic production is too risky. It is worth noting that Divine Chocolate is natural product, made with real cocoa butter and real vanilla, Fair Trade sugar and lecithin from GM-free soya. Is Divine gluten-free? None of the ingredients in Divine contain gluten. However, the bars are produced in a factory which does produce items that contain gluten. Divine Chocolate therefore can not certify that our products are gluten-free. Is Divine Kosher? Divine Chocolate bars and coins are certified by Triangle-K. Is Divine only available from the USA? No - Divine is growing around the world! You can buy Divine in the UK, across Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Why isn't Divine made in Ghana? Divine Chocolate's mission is to improve the livelihoods of cocoa farmers in West Africa. By creating a chocolate brand with significant ownership by farmers, they have created a way for farmers to access the market at the highest point of the value chain and to receive significant financial benefit. Manufacturing in Ghana would not deliver the same benefits to farmers and would introduce additional financial, logistical and environmental challenges for bringing their chocolate to the market in Europe and in the USA. How is Divine reducing its environmental impact? As a responsible company Divine is conscious of its environmental impact, and they are committed to doing their best to continuously make improvements to reduce it. Divine Chocolate doesn't use airfreight at any stage of their supply chain, and keep up to date with best practice regarding all the materials they use. Divine Chocolate's packaging is reviewed annually, and while ensuring their products are all kept protected and delicious, they want to make sure they look lovely and irresistible with as little packaging as possible. Latest developments include keeping their Easter Egg packaging to a minimum with no plastic, using cornstarch trays inside their chocolate boxes, and most recently, removing the cellophane wrapper from the Divine Advent Calendars. What is happening in Ghana to ensure environmental conservation in cocoa farming? Twin, the NGO that helped to set up Divine, is working with its trading partners in Africa and Latin America, many of whom grow tree crops in tropical rainforests, to help them find ways to adapt to and mitigate the impact of climate change. Many of these producers are having to cope with increasingly erratic rainfall patterns that are effecting productivity. With support from Twin and local and international experts, these cooperatives are beginning to identify new or rediscover old production practices that can help them adapt to climatic change. In cocoa, for example, farmers can plant more shade trees in order to improve moisture conservation and increase biodiversity. Such tree planting projects are a 'carbon sink' and can therefore potentially attract payments from carbon offsetting schemes, which can help fund these important adaptation initiatives and even generate additional income for farmers. The Divine Story The story starts in 1879 when Tetteh Quarshie first brought cocoa to Ghana from Equatorial Guinea. Since then, Ghanaian cocoa has developed a global reputation for its quality and its taste. Today it is one of the country's main exports. Ghana is the second largest exporter of cocoa in the world. Most of the cocoa is grown by small-scale family farmers on 4-5 acres of land. Cocoa farming is a precarious business. The trees are vulnerable to various diseases and pests and although chocolate is one of the world's favorite treats, the cocoa price often dips below the level at which it pays enough for cocoa small-scale farmers to survive. In the early 1990's, the cocoa market in Ghana become partially liberalized, allowing for the formation of licensed buying companies to purchase cocoa beans from farmers and sell them to Cocoa Marketing Company that would continue to be the single exporter of Ghana cocoa. A number of farmers, including a visionary farmer representative on the Ghana Cocoa Board, Nana Frimpong Abrebrese, came to realize that they had the opportunity to organize farmers in an industry where their voices were not being heard and set up a licensed buying company that would be run by farmers and for their benefit. These farmers pooled resources to set up Kuapa Kokoo, a farmers' co-op, which would trade its own cocoa, and thus manage the selling process more efficiently than the government cocoa agents. Kuapa Kokoo - which means good cocoa growers - has a mission to empower farmers in their efforts to gain a dignified livelihood, to increase women's participation in all of Kuapa's activities, and to develop environmentally friendly cultivation of cocoa. Kuapa Kokoo quickly developed a reputation for being fair and honest. In Ghana, the cocoa scale and control of the scale is tremendously important. A cocoa farmer can easily be robbed by unscrupulous clerks that rigged the scales to cheat farmers out of the full value of their crop. Kuapa Kokoo put power over the scales in the hands of farmers by making sure that each village had its own scale and its own elected clerk or village recorder. Further, through its commitment to Fair Trade and sale of cocoa to the Fair Trade market, Kuapa Kokoo was able to return greater benefits to cocoa farmers. Its membership quickly grew. In 1997, at their annual general meeting, the farmers of Kuapa Kokoo voted to set up a chocolate company of their own in order to return even more benefits to cocoa farmers. And with investment from The Body Shop and Twin Trading, and support from Comic Relief and Christian Aid, Divine Chocolate was born. Divine Chocolate is today a leading Fair Trade brand in the UK and a pioneer in the world of socially responsible enterprise. The success of Divine means that farmers have a secure source of Fair Trade income that continues to grow year on year. Kuapa Kokoo has invested its Fair Trade income in building schools, sinking wells for clean drinking water to villages, providing mobile medical clinics for farmers in remote growing regions, and fostering women's income generation projects to help women earn additional income for their families when the cocoa season is over. The farmers' ownership stake in Divine Chocolate means that Kuapa Kokoo has a meaningful input into decisions about how Divine is produced and sold. In addition, Kuapa Kokoo receives a share in the profits from their ownership shares and in 2007 celebrated the first distribution of dividends from Divine in the UK. To further its mission and further increase benefits for cocoa farmers, Divine Chocolate launched a US company to expand into $13 billion American market. In 2006, Divine Chocolate Inc opened in Washington DC to bring fantastic Fair Trade chocolate to US consumers. The farmers of Kuapa Kokoo own one-third of Divine Chocolate in the US. Additional investment is provided by Divine Chocolate Ltd. in the UK, Lutheran World Relief, Oikocredit, and SERRV International.


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Aaron Sorkin Gossip
Aaron Sorkin gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
The couple of the year
Page Six reports exclusively that Courtney Love and Aaron Sorkin are checking each other, even though his publicist denies that they're "dating". According to the paper though, Courtney's been living at the Chateau Marmont, always a residence that promotes good, healthy relationships, and she and Aaron have been together for a few months. Full Story
The Newsroom Returns
The Newsroom Season 2 Episode 1 recap So I started watching one of those Sorkinisms Supercuts a few days before this episode premiered. My God, it is hypnotic. But even though the man rips himself off wholesale, that's not what bothers me. Full Story
May 2, 2011
Do you remember this? I remember. I remember the weirdness of this. The announcement of the death of Bin Laden was so strange. It felt odd, to me, to be cheering about a military operation. Not in the "every life is a life" thing, but because of how incongruous it was anyway. Full Story
On The Newsroom
Wenn, Fame/Flynet
As I mentioned yesterday, Aaron Sorkin's new show The Newsroom, premiering on HBO Canada and HBO on Sunday at 10pm, is being ripped apart by critics. It's not that they don't have a point: Sorkin is sentimental, smug, preachy, wordy, and it can be infuriating the way he writes women. Full Story
Kristin & Aaron
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They're dating??? 80% of you just clicked away when you realised this story is about a writer. But not just any writer! Few writers have the Aaron Sorkin profile. Writers are not supposed to live in front of their words. But somehow the Sorkins and the Diablo Codys of the world have become part of the conversation too. Full Story

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Ohio State begins its season on Saturday on the road Saturday against Navy at M&T Stadium in Baltimore. The game starts at noon on CBS Sports Network.
Here's the channel information in the area:
Time Warner Cable: Channel 322 and 1322(HD)
ATT U-verse: Channel 643 and 1643 (HD)
DirecTv: Channel 221
Dish: Channel 158 and 158 (HD)
If you cable provider is not listed here is the CBS Sports Channel finder: http://www.cbssportsnetwork.com/channel-finderTo read more or comment...
No. 5 OHIO STATE (0-0) vs. NAVY (0-0)
When: Noon Saturday at Baltimore
TV: CBS Sports Network
Line: Ohio State by 14.To read more or comment...
Ohio State's first depth chart of the season has something of a surprise.
Senior Michael Bennett and junior Tommy Schutt are both listed as starters at defensive tackle next to Adolphus Washington for Saturday's game against Navy. Bennett has played in 34 games for the Buckeyes and started 13 last season. He's also Ohio State's current leader in sacks with 11.
Cam Burrows and Vonn Bell are listed as co-starters at safety and Gareon Conley and Eli Apple are listed as starters at cornerback opposite Doran Grant.
There is also a three-player tie at running back with Ezekiel Elliott, Rod Smith and Curtis Samuel. There's also no consensus at left guard (Billy Price and Joel Hale) and center (Jacoby Boren and Chad Lindsay).To read more or comment...
Braxton Miller came through surgery just fine.
The Ohio State quarterback will still miss the rest of the 2014 season after having successful surgery on Tuesday to repair the torn labrum in his right (throwing) shoulder.
"Braxton and I talked this morning before he went in," Buckeyes coach Urban Meyer said on the Big Ten coaches teleconference on Tuesday. "He had surgery. Everything is good."
Miller sent Meyer pictures of himself, his father and Dr. James Andrews, who performed the operation on Tuesday in Gulf Breeze, Florida.To read more or comment...
Ohio State announced that five senior football players will serve as captains for this season.
Defensive tackle Michael Bennett, linebacker Curtis Grant, cornerback Doran Grant, tight end Jeff Heuerman and quarterback Braxton Miller were voted captains by their teammates.
Miller is undergoing shoulder surgery tomorrow to repair a torn labrum and will miss the entire season.
Doran Grant, who attended St. Vincent-St. Mary in Akron, has started in 15 of 39 games played for the Buckeyes. In three seasons, he has 83 tackles, 11 pass break-upsa nd four interceptions.To read more or comment...
Ohio State's men's basketball team has agreed to play Connecticut in home-and-home series starting next season.
Ohio State will play at Connecticut on Dec. 12, 2015. The Huskies will play at Value City Arena for a game on Dec. 10, 2016.
The two teams have played each other four times. The Buckeyes hold a 3-1 over the Huskies, but the teams haven't played each other since 1992. That game was a 78-55 OSU win in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Connecticut is the reigning national champion in college basketball.To read more or comment...
Here is the full release from Ohio State on injured senior quarterback Braxton Miller.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State senior quarterback Braxton Miller re-injured his right shoulder attempting a short pass in practice Monday and will miss the 2014 football season. Miller, who was not hit on the play, was in the process of returning from off-season surgery in February for an injury sustained in the 2014 Discover Orange Bowl. This latest injury will require surgery.
"My thoughts and prayers are with Braxton and his family," Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer said. "This is an unfortunate injury to a young man who means so much to this program and to Buckeye nation."
"I love Ohio State and Buckeye nation, and my goal is to come back from this injury stronger and better than ever," Miller said. "I am on course to graduate in December and I want to attend graduate school, and then return to lead the Buckeyes next season. In the meantime, I want to give all the support I can to my coaches and teammates as they chase a championship this season."To read more or comment...
Las Vegas has spoken, and Ohio State's national title hopes are now a long shot.
Following the news of quarterback Braxton Miller's injury on Monday, oddsmakers at Bovada dropped Ohio State from 12/1 odds to 18/1.
After ESPN reported that Miller will miss the season, the odds fell to 50/1.
As a comparison, defending champion Florida State is at 5/1. Michigan State and Wisconsin have the best odds among Big Ten teams at 35/1.To read more or comment...
With quarterback Braxton Miller out for the season, Ohio State will likely turn to redshirt freshman J.T. Barrett to be its starter.
The team recently named Barrett the second-string quarterback, overtaking redshirt sophomore Cardale Jones.
"The offense moves better when (Barrett is) in there," offensive coordinator Tom Herman told reporters on Saturday. "And you can throw all the completion percentages and everything else in there, too. He's completing more balls and making more of the right reads in the passing game and more of the right reads in the running game. But at the end of the day, the offense moves better when he's in."
Coming out of Rider High School in Texas, Barrett was rated as the nation's third-best dual-threat quarterback by recruiting website 247Sports and a four-star prospect.To read more or comment...
COLUMBUS: Urban Meyer wasn't just unhappy with his pass defense after last season.
So upset was he that he destroyed it, hired a new coach to oversee what was left and then they rebuilt it from the ground up.
"It's an acknowledgment of things not done well," veteran safeties coach Kerry Coombs said.
As a result, there are a lot of people keeping a close watch on the defensive backfield in particular as No. 5 Ohio State goes through its paces in preparation for the Aug. 30 opener against Navy in Baltimore.To read more or comment...
If you don't already have tickets to Ohio State's football games this season, expect to pay a significant amount on the secondary market.
According to ticket broker TiqIQ, the Buckeyes have the most expensive secondary market tickets in the nation at an average of $237 per seat.
Notre Dame is second at an average of $228 per seat. The highest Big Ten team after OSU is Penn State at No. 10 with an average price of $150.
See the full list here.To read more or comment...


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Feminism | Posted by Valentina V. on 02/18/2011
Silvio Berlusconi and Italian Women
You may have heard about the private behaviour of Silvio Berlusconi – the male chauvinist politician that opened his door to protégées and lovers. Add this to Italian culture of degrading media and the poor opportunities women have for careers and the world must be wondering how we can accept all this madness. A lot of Italian women are trying to find the answers to the complicated question (our reality), "Why do women always have to find a solution to excesses of male privilege? Why do we put up with it?"
For a young woman like me, who was born in and has always lived in Italy, the recent political incident that has shocked society seems to be the last chapter of a long tradition of a corrupted …


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Serves 15-18.
Bake your favorite 2-layer cake recipe or mix in 8 in. round pan following instructions. Cool cake in pan on cooling grid 10 minutes. Remove from pan and cool completely. Prepare cake circle with Fanci-Foil. Stack cake on prepared board. Spatula ice with green buttercream icing.
Ice vanilla wafers smooth with green buttercream; attach with dot of icing to flower nail. Pipe a circle of tip 233 yellow buttercream icing pull-out dots on edge of vanilla wafer, turning nail slightly after each set of pull-out "petals". Pipe second circle of pull-out "petals" inside first circle; continue piping circles of petals filling in the center. Carefully lift flower and arrange on top of cake.
Pipe tip 18 yellow buttercream rosettes for cake bottom border. Add tip 3 yellow buttercream dots on cake sides.


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Mohammad Khalil
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East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
Mohammad Hassan Khalil is an associate professor of religious studies at Michigan State University. Before returning to his hometown of East Lansing, he was an assistant professor of religion and visiting professor of law at the University of Illinois. Khalil specializes in Islamic thought and is the author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question (Oxford University Press, 2012) and editor of Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (Oxford University Press, 2013).
Khalil has presented papers at various national and international conferences, and has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on various topics including bioethics, early Islamic historiography, contemporary conversion narratives, soteriology, and jihad.


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Fracking is twice as bad for climate as coal - will the Climate Change Committee ban it?
Dr Robin Russell-Jones
9th June 2016The UK government is all for fracking, writes Dr Robin Russell-Jones, but on climate grounds alone it should be banned. Evidence from the US shows that shale gas is twice as dirty as coal from a climate viewpoint due to 'fugitive emissions' of methane. That makes fracking incompatible with the UK's climate change commitments and the Paris Agreement - as the CCC may soon rule. more...
We must cool the Arctic before it's too late
Matthew Worsdale
29th April 2014The decline of Arctic sea ice demands a response, writes Matthew Worsdale. As Arctic temperatures rise, so does the danger of huge eruptions of methane - a powerful greenhouse gas - that will tip the climate into 'hot'. The only solution is geo-engineering. more...
Campaigners cry 'insanity' as UNEP postpones frozen gas report
Oliver Tickell
18th November 2013UNEP today postponed the launch of a highly controversial report - branded as "lunatic" by climate campaigners - at the COP19 talks in Warsaw. more...
UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal'
Tom Levitt
13th April, 2011Despite outrage in the US over 'fracturing' techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool more...
UK gas fracking boom 'may be dirtier than coal'
Tom Levitt
13th April, 2011As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool more...
Freshwater lakes and rivers contributing to climate change
Tom Levitt
12th January, 2011Study estimates emissions of methane from freshwater systems to be 103 million tonnes per year - equivalent to 25 per cent of all the carbon dioxide absorbed by the world's land areas more...
Methane: the quick fix for global warming?
Tom Levitt
18th February, 2010Its short lifespan and greater potency means tackling methane emissions now could have a dramatic effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations reports Tom Levitt more...
The Ecologist December 1979: Can we control pollution?
Edward Goldsmith
December, 1979Thirty years ago Edward Goldsmith's article 'Can we control pollution?' wondered what happens to pollution once we have 'disposed' of it more...
Can cows help stop climate change?
Ed Hamer
15th September, 2009Meat, dairy... in fact, livestock in general has in recent years joined the ranks of the 4x4 and the short-haul flight. But could a change in the way we graze animals not only reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but even remove them from the atmosphere? more...
ExxonMobil and Venter sign $600 million algae biofuel deal
15th July, 2009Oli giant ExxonMobil has signed a $600 million deal with controversial genome scientist J Craig Venter to develop biofuels made from algae more...
Draining paddy fields could cut methane from rice production
19th June, 2009Chinese scientists have discovered that draining rice paddies just once every growing season may help reduce global methane emissions from the industry by almost a third more...
Power On - Energy from Waste
Jon Hughes and Mark Anslow
1st November, 2007Each year, UK livestock produce some 60 million tonnes of collectable faeces. If left to run into water-courses or even spread on fields, this waste can lead to the same problems associated with excessive fertiliser use – algal blooms and aquatic life starved of oxygen. more...
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I am looking for a eSATA card that is well supported in Linux. Particularly, I am looking for an eSATA card that works with a linux driver and can handle NCQ. (NCQ should allow the card to operate fast. My card/driver combination apparently does not handle NCQ.) The upgrade may help, since I suspect that there is more support for eSATA drivers in the PCI-e configuration than my current PCI requirement.
This looks like a promising card
Does anyone have any other suggestions?


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Topic: Cachexia
Question here, I have questions about cachexia. Can anyone help?
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Question here, I have questions about cachexia. Can anyone help?
hi - we have chated on john hopkins i think? - i know that ukmember who checks into this site regulary has info on cachexia..
i do not know very much about it - sorry, hopefully ukmember will reply to you. Hows it going?
Yes Hi Jules,
Hope your dad is doing well....I just thought maybe there would be some new voices over here with different experiences. It seems to be fairly slow.
My dad is losing weight rapidly and they mentioned cachexia. I am somewhat afraid and hope it doesn't mean an irreversible downslide. I would love someone with experience to let me know......
Take care Jules! :-)
My husband had very severe cachexia. There is a post on the experiences section about it. I gave him build up drinks which stabilised his weight until he became really severely ill and then he was unable to eat anything and even when it seemed there was no more weight to lose, he still got thinner. THis is one of the common side effects of this disease and one of the most difficult to deal with.
Thank you. I did read your posts and I think I followed it correctly. For some reason, the dates throw me. I get mixed up with the european way of dating things and think I am reading things wrong. I appreciate your response. We are now on 600 calorie shakes and trying to keep going. He won't do the feeding tube.
Hopefully, he will sustain and the chemo will kick in.
Thank you so much.
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Vegan Ice Cream Enters a Golden Age
July 21, 2017
CSF oligoclonal banding is a test to look for inflammation-related proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), the clear fluid that flows in the space surrounding the spinal cord and brain.
Oligoclonal bands are proteins called immunoglobulins, which suggest inflammation of the central nervous system. The presence of oligoclonal bands may be a sign of multiple sclerosis.
Cerebrospinal fluid - immunofixation
A sample of CSF is needed. A lumbar puncture (spinal tap) is the most common way to collect this sample. For information on this procedure, see the article on lumbar puncture.
Other methods for collecting CSF are rarely used, by may be recommended in some cases. They include:
After the sample is taken, it is sent to a laboratory for evaluation.
See: Lumbar puncture
See: Lumbar puncture
This test helps support, but does not confirm, the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). The presence of oligoclonal bands in the CSF can also be seen in other illnesses.
Normally, one or no bands should be found in the CSF.
Note: Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
The examples above show the common measurements for results for these tests. Some laboratories use different measurements or may test different specimens.
There are two or more bandings found in the CSF and not in the blood. This may be a sign of multiple sclerosis or other inflammatory processes.
See: Lumbar puncture
Griggs RC, Jozefowicz RF, Aminoff MJ. Approach to the patient with neurologic disease. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier. 2007: chap 418.
Lublin FD, Miller AE. Multiple sclerosis and other inflammatory demyelinating diseases of the central nervous system. In: Bradley WG, Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, eds. Bradley: Neurology in Clinical Practice. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Butterworth-Heinemann Elsevier; 2008:chap 58.


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The 6'0, 175-lb junior was named a four-star prospect and a top 50 national player in the initial Scout 300.
"He makes plays," Cass Tech defensive coordinator Jermain Crowell said. "He causes a lot of turnovers. In the championship game alone, he forced two fumbles and had a pick. That kid makes plays."
Crowell says the Buckeyes are making a splash.
"They aren't messing around," he explained. "I didn't think they were going to let him leave without saying yes."
Not only is Crowell the defensive coordinator, but he works specifically with the defensive backs, and says as good as he is, his best days are still ahead of him.
"A lot of his stuff is natural ability. He's only been playing corner for like a year, so he'll be a lot better next year playing with Max Ex, going to help him out a lot, help him work out technical stuff. He's still raw."


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Springsteen headlining NCAA March Madness Music Festival
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are adding to the festivities surrounding the men's college basketball championship series. The group is one of the headliners for the March Madness Music Festival, taking place at Reunion Park in Dallas this weekend.
Springsteen and the Band will cap off the three-day concert event with their performance Sunday night. The Killers lead Saturday's lineup, while Jason Aldean helps get the party started Friday night. Other performers throughout the weekend include Fun., LL Cool J, and Tim McGraw.
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I know of a website that had some downtime because it was on an IP which was the target of an extremely large distributed denial of service attack (5gbit+). How can website owners defend themselves against DDOS attacks?
There's many services. One that may work for smaller attacks is [CloudFlare, for bigger attacks, provides such as [url=http://www.blacklotus.net]Blacklotus](http://www.cloudflare.com) specialize in DDoS filtering.
Thanks for those links snickn, will have a good look at CloudFlare. BlackLotus looks great, but as you say it is probably for much larger attacks on higher profile sites.
Update - I've signed up to CloudFlare, using their free service to start with. Hopefully this will help. Thanks again snickn.
Try turning on I'm Under Attack if you're having an attack using CloudFlare.
The best solution for distributed attacks is a hardware firewall, but that requires extra equipment and it can be expensive.
Thanks Damon, good to meet you here on SP.
Thanks for the suggestion kduv, that's not an option for the moment, but something to consider as the sites grow.
A hardware firewall is not expensive, take any old computer doesn't need to be super powerful, a netbook type of computer would be enough, it only needs two ethernet ports. Install one of the many free firewall solutions, SmoothWall for example.
But if your server is hosted in a datacenter, then at the very least you'll have to pay co-location fees, then you'll want to have spare parts on hand in case of any hardware failure, etc. If you're hosting your own server out of your garage or something, sure that can be a quick and effective way to implement one.
Fair point. Then again, the old m0n0wall sitting next to me is running on a 15 year old desktop. Actually more efficent -- slower old stuff runs cooler, no need for active cooling and a ~140 watt power supply. Waiting on the power supply to die in a blaze of glory, but you can run most of those firewall distros off a floppy/cd or usb storage so you don't need to keep a hard drive spinning.
Consult with your hosting provider (if your site is hosted with some company) they must have industry standard protection available.


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Dowtown Federal Credit Union is a member-owned and operated not-for-profit
financial organization.
Our primary purpose is to promote thrift and provide a full range of
financial services at fair and competitive rates while always
maintaining our financial stability. Our Credit Union will
maintain a constant awareness and openess to future programs and
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In Praise of the Compact Disc, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- Faulkner and Hemingway had a famously snippy rapport—Will was all like, "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary," and Ernie was all like, "If you have to write the longest sentence in the world to give a book distinction, the next thing you should hire Bill Veek [sic] and use midgets"—which makes Faulkner's one-paragraph review of The Old Man and the Sea all the more surprising in its candor and courteousness. "Time may show it to be the best single piece of any of us, I mean his and my contemporaries."
- The case for compact discs, which are, at this juncture, the least hip medium in music: "There's a lot of pressure in our culture right now to essentially imagine CDs out of existence … CDs currently exist in a cultural no-man's-land recently defined by singer-songwriter Todd Snider as 'post-hip, pre-retro'—the format is passé, but not so passé that it qualifies for reclamation."
- "No matter how many buildings, spacecrafts, and sentient robots Michael Bay explodes, the director can't seem to get any respect." So why do they perform so well at the box office, and what, exactly, motivates Bay's style? "This video may at least help his detractors articulate their distaste with a greater degree of specificity."
- The artist Mark Dorf's new series, "Axiom and Simulation," attempts to illustrate how "the human race is constantly recording data and transforming elements of our physical surroundings into abstracted and non-physical calculations."
- Offices across the land are under the thumb of that insidiously vague dress code, corporate casual. "No one was quite sure what corporate casual meant. We googled it. The gist of every article is that no one knows what corporate casual is."


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As soon as I stepped out of my apartment Easter morning, I saw my upstairs neighbor, Consuelo, relaxing on her balcony. She and I have worked out a barter economy, cigarettes being the chief commodity. I asked if she could spare one, and she tossed one down. As she did, she asked, "Where are you [Read More…]
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The other day, as the fragrance of my easy and quick Mushroom Biryani filled the kitchen, I was back for a moment in my aunt's kitchen in Bombay.
Akka, my dad's sister in whose Vile Parle home I spent many wonderful summers as a girl, was at the stove, frying up the onions for her mutton biryani in a small Indian wok, known as a kadhai. My cousin Tai was sitting on the cold, red, cement-tiled floor at an adoli, a cutting implement often used in Indian homes instead of a knife, cutting coriander leaves into lacy fronds with a deftness I have never mastered. A plane closing in to land at the Santa Cruz airport just a couple of miles away drowned out, for a moment, the sounds of gods alternately battling and pontificating on my uncle's favorite Sunday morning television show, Mahabharat.
Akka passed away last year, and it's been a long time since I've physically been in my hometown, Bombay. But the food I cook in my kitchen often takes me back, like a time machine, to her and into other long-lost corners of the past.
The smell of cumin sputtering in oil reminds me of the swell of excitement I felt the first time I visited Delhi along with other students in my class at journalism school. We were about to start the most exciting trip of our lifetimes thus far. We were going to meet leaders of top political parties, visit the pink-marble building of the Indian parliament, and explore the capital city. I don't remember many details of the central government dorm we were staying at, after a day and night's train journey from Pune, but the overpowering scent of burnt cumin floating atop a dal that we were served for dinner is seared forever in my memory.
The scent of turmeric in a curry reminds me of the lunch I ate at the US Embassy in London, along with journalists from around the world on a fellowship. The curry we were served was nice enough although really heavy on the turmeric. But what was even more memorable was the American diplomat who shared our table. He had somehow gotten a dab of butter on his forehead and as the meal progressed the butter slowly melted and ran down his face and his nose, even as he talked vigorously, completely oblivious to the butter and to the inadvertent entertainment he was providing the rest of us (we weren't being cruel– we just didn't know how to tell him).
Rolling a paratha reminds me of the first recipe I ever cooked for Desi– an Aloo Paratha. Each time I make parathas now, he reminds me, to this day, that he nearly starved that afternoon as he waited for me to turn out one that was fit to eat.
Among all the things food is, it is a wonderful reminder of the paths our lives have taken. Its effect is certainly not strong enough to shape lives– unless you happened to choose a career in food, perhaps– but it often becomes a delicious marker for life's milestones. The best part is, it doesn't even really have to be delicious to be memorable, although that doesn't hurt.
What are the foods that mark the milestones of your life? I'd love to hear.
I adapted my recipe today from the Indian chef Sanjeev Kapoor's version of a low-fat fish biryani. I love biryanis– who doesn't?– but as anyone who's made one knows, it is not the stuff of weeknights. When I saw Kapoor's recipe I was thrilled because it appeared really easy to put together. You just mix everything in a pot, no separate sauteing for each ingredient required, and there's definitely no grinding and blending involved. It doesn't get any better for my time-strapped kitchen.
I made a few changes, besides the fish which I substituted with the mushrooms. I also subbed the yogurt– an ingredient that adds a little extra something to any biryani– with coconut milk. And for good measure, I threw in a few handfuls of green salad leafies that had been sitting around in my fridge and weren't looking too, ahem, lively. You can add other vegetables to this recipe as well, like bell peppers or carrots– anything that doesn't take ages to cook. If it does, precook it before adding it to the biryani.
One of the best things about this recipe is, it has no added fat (there is some fat in coconut milk and in the fried onions, if you choose to use those, but no added oil). So in addition to being delicious and easy to make, this biryani is also good for you. And how can you argue with that?
So here's the recipe for an easy, low-fat Mushroom Biryani, a flavorful, delicious, and vegan treat for any weeknight or weekend meal. It is good enough to mark one of life's milestones.
Enjoy, all!
Mushroom Biryani, Low-Fat
- 1 cup Basmati rice. Soak the rice for 30 minutes and then wash thoroughly to remove as much of the starch as you can.
- 3 cloves
- 3 pods of green cardamom
- 2 1- inch pieces of cinnamon
- 1-2 bay leaves
- For the sauce:
- 4 cups chopped mushrooms. Quarter the really large ones and halve the smaller ones.
- 2 cups of quick-cooking leafy greens (don't use kale or collard which take a long time to cook. Spinach, lettuce, chard are all good).
- 1 cup coconut milk
- Juice of 2 lemons
- 1 large onion , thinly sliced
- 1 heaping tbsp garam masala or biryani masala. If using biryani masala , you may want to cut back on the cayenne because these masalas can sometimes be really spicy.
- 1 tbsp ginger paste
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 1/2 tsp cayenne or paprika
- 2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 cup coriander leaves , minced
- 1/4 cup dill or mint , minced
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 cup fried onions (optional, but these are always a key ingredient in biryanis because they give great flavor. You can use French's or the ones you can buy in a packet at the Indian grocery store)Method:
In a saucepan, place 1 cup of water, the cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and bay leaves. Add salt to taste.
Pour in the drained rice and place over a medium fire. When the water starts to boil, cover the saucepan with a tight-fitting lid and then turn down the heat to the lowest setting.
Let the rice steam for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat.
Mix all the remaining ingredients together in a heavy-bottomed pan with a tight-fitting lid. Turn on the heat and saute until the mushrooms are almost cooked.
Pour the cooked rice over the mushroom mixture and spread into an even layer.
Sprinkle the top with a little coconut milk, if you desire
Cover and let the biryani cook on a low flame for about 15 minutes.
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Fox judicial analyst Napolitano falsely claimed Supreme Court majority won't allow any restrictions on abortion
Discussing the "undue burden" standard established by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision to determine if a particular state-imposed restriction on abortion is constitutional, Fox News senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano falsely claimed that five justices on the Supreme Court "have consistently found that whatever the states do to diminish abortions or protect children is an undue burden." Fox News host Bill O'Reilly went further, claiming that the court evidently believes there should be "no limits" on abortion. In fact, the Casey decision itself upheld several provisions in a Pennsylvania statute restricting abortion, with three justices ruling specifically that they did not impose an undue burden.
The plurality opinion [1] in Casey signed by Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter, and Anthony Kennedy did provide that "The woman's right to terminate her pregnancy before viability is the most central principle of Roe v. Wade," the 1973 Supreme Court decision that overturned state laws restricting abortion, and is "a rule of law and a component of liberty we cannot renounce." But the three justices also held that restrictions are constitutionally permitted, so long as they do not impose an "undue burden." They ruled that "the undue burden standard is the appropriate means of reconciling the State's interest with the woman's constitutionally protected liberty." A majority including O'Connor, Souter and Kennedy then upheld several of Pennsylvania's abortion restrictions, including:
- A 24-hour waiting period. The opinion states: "The statute, as construed by the Court of Appeals, permits avoidance of the waiting period in the event of a medical emergency, and the record evidence shows that, in the vast majority of cases, a 24-hour delay does not create any appreciable health risk. In theory, at least, the waiting period is a reasonable measure to implement the State's interest in protecting the life of the unborn, a measure that does not amount to an undue burden."
- A one-parent consent requirement. The opinion states: "We next consider the parental consent provision. ... We have been over most of this ground before. Our cases establish, and we reaffirm today, that a State may require a minor seeking an abortion to obtain the consent of a parent or guardian, provided that there is an adequate judicial bypass procedure. ... Under these precedents, in our view, the one-parent consent requirement and judicial bypass procedure are constitutional."
From the March 29 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: Maybe it was -- maybe it was 6-3 or 5-4. Who knows? Right now the United States, as the Supreme Court puts it, evolving -- evolving value system, it looks to me like there will be any kind of abortion up until two minutes before birth for anybody, for any reason. And any girl who gets pregnant, minor or otherwise, can get any kind of an abortion, so no restrictions on abortion at all.
NAPOLITANO: When the court wrote the Casey decision, Casey v. Planned Parenthood -- it's the last large seminal decision on abortion. Justice O'Connor came up with a nonsensical provision called undue burden. The states can't put an "undue burden" on abortion.
What's an "undue burden"? Whatever five of the justices want it to be at any given time.
O'REILLY: You got it.
NAPOLITANO: And those five have consistently found that whatever the states do to diminish abortions --
O'REILLY: No limits. Right. No limits.
NAPOLITANO: ... or protect children is an undue burden.
O'REILLY: All right. We see where it's evolving, Judge. Thanks very much.
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A Former Card Needs Your Help To Make Christmas Better For Kids At Kosair
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- For the third year you can help a former U of L basketball star brighten Christmas for kids at Kosair's.
Kyle Kuric's charity, "Kyle's Korner for Kids" is collecting toys before the men's basketball game with Missouri State to deliver to the kids at Kosair's Children's Hospital.The charity is looking to collect as many new toys for any age or gender as possible.
There will be collection boxes at all the entrances to the KFC Yum! Center. Last year's drive collected over 2,000 toys.
Since Kuric is playing basketball overseas, the delivery will be made by current Cardinal Luke Hancock.


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From a financial standpoint, there's no need for Lakers forward Kobe Bryant to fret about collecting a league-leading 13 technical fouls. The cumulative $33,000 in fines pales to the $27.8 million he's making this season.
"You think his money is going to run out?" coach Mike D'Antoni joked.
Should Bryant accumulate 16 technical fouls, though, the NBA will suspend him for a game.
"That's a little nerve-wracking," Bryant said sarcastically. "I don't know if I can control myself."
Bryant earned 16 technicals in the 2010-11 season, marking the only time he's done so in his 17-year career. He came close in other seasons in 2001-02 (14), 2005-06 (15), 2006-07 (14), 2007-08 (15) and 2009-10 (14).
"He just has to watch it," D'Antoni said. "He's smart enough to figure it out."


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But, beyond all question, Castlereagh is one of the most atrocious and despicable Englishmen of the nineteenth century.
This I determined to do, and accordingly set off for Castlereagh Street.
Castlereagh endeavours to talk over Talleyrand with British common sense.
Castlereagh was unfortunate in his end and unpopular during his life.
British foreign policy, then under the guidance of Castlereagh, was distinctly favourable to this policy.
It therefore suited Talleyrand to adopt the views of Castlereagh.
Castlereagh and Canning shared between them, in succession, the office of Foreign Secretary.
Castlereagh was now directed to come to an understanding with Talleyrand.
But, quick as was Castlereagh's action, events had moved even more quickly.
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Honestly I hope BB is successful with the blackberry 10. I used to use blackberry, loved it! The blackberry play book is one of the best tablets on the market. Only problem, no apps. If they could get the apps, blackberry could be successful. The more competition the better. Go Blackberry!
who really does multitasking with more then 3-6 apps at once?
Copy something in Notes, Paste it into Safari, send a text message, open Modmyi app, play some music with Pandora, close Notes
This guy... Lol!!!!!!! His whole attitude, thought process, words... All of it - just a big lol!!!!
Blackberry calls iPhone outdated!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would also like to add ... For those of you who take articles like this as serious stuff... This was a news-grab for BB, trying to steal a cycle with outrageous claims. Even investors won't take this guy seriously!!!
BlackBerry. Sorry. you don't even score on the innovation chart dear. There are tonnes of others who are far ahead in technology than you are.
My guess is you are atleast 5 years behind in technology.
If u want the damn tiles, get a damn lumia..!
I'm sorry but I'm gunna say this.
All you cry-baby fanboys need to stop blubbing with your sad bravado ond denial - and acknowledge that the iPhone reached its zenith in June 2010 with the release of the iPhone 4 and the 4.3 Jailbreak.
And despite the elapse of three years since then, there has been no further evolution or innovation.
The iPhone is a victim of its own stability (just working) - for it is frozen in time.
So get the tissue box out, have a good cry, man up and move on.
Someone else has taken up the baton and the iPhone is a living fossil (read : dead).
Siri is utter rubbish compared to Google/Dragon (same algorithm) voice recognition.
Taller screen ? ... brilliant (/sarcasm off).
4G and faster processing = the same thing faster, which is not innovation.
And with that, I think you're out of ammo - aren't you ?
Good job ostriches like you aren't running Apple.
You don't happen to work for Nokia, do you ?
I think you should change your user name.
And I doubt you'd even be aware of what my username is a reference to - but that you've resorted to a childish ad-hominem attack really says that you have nothing left to argue with, wouldn't you say ?
I used to say what people said here... Apple is great, iPhone is great, iOS is the best! That was 3 years ago. I had the 3G, then 4 and felt no need to upgrade to 4s or 5. Android back then was crap. But I wanted a bigger phone. I waited. Then jelly bean came and wow. It's just amazing. I got myself a Nexus 4 and as much I loved my iPhone 4, I couldn't wait to sell it.
What people want is what android and other phone companies is giving them. Bigger screens, easy customizations, and lots of hardware choices. Yes, people do want these believe it or not. Many people customize their computers. I have no problem working from one computer from another. I've never used android before. It took all of 10 minutes to work out most of the basic functions and settings. Every gadget has a learning curve. When my friend tried to use my iPhone, he had to ask where some settings and other basic functions are. So not everyone can just "pick one up and start using" as one reply suggests.
In any case, whatever apple do from now, it'll just be playing catchup to everyone else. Bigger screen? Been there. Swipe style keyboard? Done that (I love it on my N4). Widgets on your home screen? 4 years too late. As much as I loved iOS and iPhone, I'm beginning to love my Andriod N4. Try one for a week and you'll see what I'm talking about.
The only thing sad is the endless back and forth nonsense about which OS is better, which phone is better. It's gotten to be REALLY old. Stop trying to measure the size of your "egos" through these tired fanboy debates and instead realize that all this choice and competition really just means one thing: We all win, we get to choose between some great software and phones.


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Peace Corps 50th Anniversary Celebration: Schedule of Events
The Institute and the Peace Corps: Celebrating 50 Years of Global Engagement
Join us for a day of celebration on October 8, 2011!
Schedule of Events
10:00 AM-11:30 AM Screening of "American Idealist: The Story of Sargent Shriver"
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Registration Opens/Peace Corps Photo Displays
1:00 PM-1:45 PM Introduction/Welcome Session, highlighting MIIS connections to the Peace Corps w/faculty and staff RPCV stories
Sunder Ramaswamy, the Institute President
Sam Farr, Congressman, California 17th district, RPCV Colombia 1964-1966
Peter Grothe, the Institute Professor
1:45 PM-2:45 PM Panel Discussion #1: Peace Corps Trailblazers from the Early Years
Philip Morgan, Professor Emeritus and RPCV Nyasaland (Malawi) 1963-1966
David Elliott Managing Partner Heidrick and Struggles, - Peace Corps Country Director India, Nigeria, Sierra Leone 1966-69, RPCV Poland 1991-93
Howard Anderson Chief of the Field Assistance Division in Overseas Program and Training Support at the Peace Corps, - RPCV Gabon 1974-77, Peace Corps Country Director Zaire, Swaziland, Mali and Jamaica.
Laurence P. Horan, attorney, - Peace Corps Country Director El Salvador, Costa Rica, Colombia 1964-67, Regional Director for the Western U.S. for the "War on Poverty" 1967-69
2:45 PM-3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM-4:00 PM Panel Discussion #2: Peace Corps and its Impact on Careers
Eric Goldman, Director Office of Diversity and National Outreach, and the Master's International program at the Peace Corps
Peter Laugharn Executive Director of the Santa Cruz-based Firelight Foundation, - RPCV Morocco 1982-84
Maureen Orth, award-winning journalist and Vanity Fair special correspondant, - RPCV Colombia 1964-66
Priscilla Wrubel, Founder the Nature Company, - RPCV Liberia 1963-64
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Transition Break with Coffee and Music
4:30 PM-5:30 PM Paul Theroux Keynote Address "The Humility of Travel"
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Brenda Beckman-Long, PhD
EducationShe has a doctorate in English from the University of Alberta and post doctorate from McMaster University
SpecializationShe teaches and researches in the areas of Canadian literature, Canadian women's writing, autobiography theory, testimony and trauma studies.
Brenda Beckman-Long teaches English at Briercrest College and Seminary. She has a doctorate in English from the University of Alberta and post doctorate from McMaster University. She teaches and researches in the areas of Canadian literature, Canadian women's writing, autobiography theory, testimony and trauma studies.
ResearchPublished articles and essays on confession, autobiography, and women's writing appear in Studies in Canadian Literature, English Studies in Canada, Literature and Theology, Tessera, Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence (ed. Christian Riegel, 1997), Dictionary of Literary Biography: 21st-century Canadian Writers (ed. Christian Riegel, 2007), West of Eden: Essays on Canadian Prairie Literature (ed. Sue Sorensen, 2009), and Mind the Gap: Saskatchewan Cultural Spaces (eds. Christine Ramsay and Randal Rogers, 2014). She belongs to the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) and theCRC Symposium for Diversity in Canadian Literary Cultures, a community of scholars formed around the Canada Research Chair in Diversity in Canadian Literary Cultures at McMaster University.
Her forthcoming book, Carol Shields and The Writer-Critic (UTP), is a critical reappraisal of Shields's work and career as a novelist.
Her most recent work (in progress) explores how 21st-century Canadian novelists engage readers in historical and current crises through testimonial narratives. She examines texts that bear witness to far-reaching traumas on a world stage: Karen Connelly's The Lizard Cage, Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes, Steven Galloway's The Cellist of Sarajevo, and Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. Together these novels bridge gaps of space and time, coveringAsia,Europe,Africa, theU.S. andCanada from 1800 to 2001. They inscribe the reader as a witness by employing autobiographical genres, crossing boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, and blending first- and third-person or multiple perspectives. They thereby create ethical communities of readers and new international audiences.


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Aiken, S.C. - The Brevard College softball team was swept on Saturday after traveling to USC-Aiken. The Pacers were able to take down Brevard 1-0 in the opening game in nine innings. The Tornados fell in the second game 7-2. The Tornados fall to 2-2 on the season with the pair of losses.
Game 1: USC-Aiken 1, Brevard 0 (9 Innings)
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Martika Elmore (Fayetteville, N.C.) threw 8.1 innings of scoreless ball until a pair of doubles in the ninth inning took down the Tornados.
Elmore went 8.1 innings and struck out seven. With the loss Elmore moved to 1-1 on the season. She scattered six hits in the loss.
At the plate, the Tornados had just four hits through nine innings of play.
Game 2: USC-Aiken 7, Brevard 2
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Alyssa Miller (Davie, Fla.) started game two for the Tornados. She went 3.1 innings for the Tornados. Miller was touched for six runs, five earned in her first loss of the season. Miller fell to 1-1. Elmore came in relief for Miller and threw the final 2.2 innings. She surrendered just one run.
Offensively, Brittany Fowler (Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA) led the way. The freshman outfielder went 3-of-4 with an RBI and a triple. Sarah Carlos (Eagle River, Alaska) added three hits of her own, while Becca Curlee (Eagle River, Alaska) chipped in with an RBI.
The Tornados are back in action on Wednesday, February 16th when they play host to Milligan. The doubleheader is set to start at 2 p.m. at the BC Softball Field.


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An incumbent Republican state senator as well as a Democratic real estate agent and educator are the choices for voters in the race for the 23rd Senate District.
Democratic candidate Melissa Ruth O'Donnell, and Republican State Sen. Bill Emmerson, R-Riverside, hope to represent the district.
The 23rd District includes Rancho Cucamonga, San Bernardino, Highland, Loma Linda, Mentone, Yucaipa, San Jacinto, Menifee, Lakeview, Lytle Creek, Wrightwood, Phelan, Lake Arrowhead, Running Springs and Big Bear City.
Both have distinct views on the role of state government and how to grow the economy for the region.
O'Donnell, who garnered 35 percent of the primary vote, said she's focused on job creation, education and fixing the housing crisis.
She has said real estate closures and the lack of jobs are big problems for the district, and would call for legislation that would require every foreclosure issue to be heard in court by a judge.
"I really think we need to help out our small business owners and we need to pass legislation that helps an owner create a business in our community," O'Donnell said.
"I think there's a big difference between a small business and a corporation. Small business owners get very overwhelmed and they have to fill out new paperwork. Small business owners are wearing five different hats at once and that's something I want to help small business owners with and help their businesses grow."
Emmerson, who captured 65 percent of the primary vote, said he was committed to job growth, regulatory reform, pension reform and a cap on government spending.
"I carried legislation to create tax incentives for people who hire, and I'm also involved with a group of four other state senators making some changes in CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) law to make it more streamlined. It's problematic when in (another state) you can bring a project to the table in a matter of a few months, and it takes years in California."
O'Donnell, who has the support of local unions and the California Federation of Teachers, said she would encourage the growth of more manufacturing jobs in the area. The key, O'Donnell said, is communication with corporations and businesses.
"I think we need to work with corporations that are already here," he said.
"There's a lot of manufacturing jobs. I would work with companies that aren't in our area and try to bring them here as well. I think I'm a pretty good listener and I'm willing to listen to what corporations have to tell me."
Emmerson, who also supports the growth of manufacturing jobs in the area, is keen on continuing work to expand transportation and logistical infrastructure on the area.
"We need to expand the Metrolink system for more public transportation. We have a Perris Valley line about to begin and there's a line from San Bernardino to Redlands," Emmerson said. "There are a lot of public transportation projects that can be completed and we'll need to work on those in the near future."
Emmerson also said the pension reform plan approved by the majority of Democrats in Sacramento doesn't go far enough.
"What was approved by the Legislature just addressed some of the very small issues," Emmerson said.
"We can change how much the employees pay into it and how much the state pays into it right now. It's unfunded because employees are not paying their fair share on it."
O'Donnell supports the approved pension changes, which raised the retirement age for new employees, among other changes.
"I know that was a major challenge being fought," O'Donnell said. "I'm glad there was a compromise made. I think that was very important. At the state level, it's hard to get things done when you want to do different things. I'm glad they came to some sort of agreement."
The newly drawn district is 42 percent Republican registration, 34 percent Democratic and 19 percent of voters are independent.
Emmerson currently represents the 37th Senate District in Riverside County.
Reach Neil via email, call him at 909-483-9356, or find him on Twitter @InlandGov.


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How to squeeze Dublin into just five things to do? Well, there are priceless – and free – galleries, the famous Book of Kells, a toast to Arthur Guinness and some traditional boxty for dinner
Dublin's galleries and museums harbour priceless treasures – and you can visit them for free in Dublin. Gaze at a stunning Bronze Age gold collar in the National Museum or be moved by incredible Iron Age bog bodies. Then there's the National Gallery's own spectacular discovery – a Caravaggio masterpiece, The Taking of Christ. It's one of the highlights of a collection that includes Van Gogh, Monet, Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck and Irish expressionist Jack B Yeats.
You can stare into the artistic chaos of Francis Bacon's Studio at the Hugh Lane Gallery; seek out works by Dorothy Cross, Louise Bourgeois and filmmaker Neil Jordan at the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and learn about Eileen Gray – one of the world's most influential designers – at the National Museum of Decorative Arts & History. All without spending a penny.
Survey panoramic views of the city from atop Dublin's Guinness Storehouse. The Gravity Bar is like a glass bird's nest, with views stretching from rooftops to parkland and steeples to mountains. You'll have to get through the Storehouse's seven storeys first, though.
Guinness has the whole sensory experience of the production process covered: you'll touch, taste and smell what goes into the world's most famous stout. In the advertising section, recall the toucans, ostriches, and award-winning surfers of the brand's past iconic advertising. Then learn the secret to pouring the perfect pint.
Squint at the detail in the renowned Book of Kells in Trinity College. This lavishly illustrated manuscript of the Gospels dates from the 9th century, and is simply a marvel of Early Christian art carried out by the monks' steady hands. The 65-metre Long Room in the Old Library is an incredible sight, and is filled with old books, marble busts and a barrel-vaulted ceiling. This is also the room that inspired the imagery of the Jedi Archive in Star Wars Episode II.
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In a city laced with literature, there's a story around every corner. And in every pub. Toast to a few on the Dublin Literary Pub Crawl – an actor-led tour of Dublin's literary luminaries.
Hear the story of WB Yeats, Ireland's most illustrious poet, and his muse Maud Gonne at a National Library exhibition deemed "dazzling" by the New York Times.
Around the corner in St Ann's Church, see the bust of Bram Stoker – the Dubliner who wrote Dracula. He married Florence Balcombe, Oscar Wilde's ex-girlfriend, in this hallowed place.
James Joyce is known for setting a story or two in Dublin – from Dubliners to his masterpiece Ulysses. Explore the writer's life and work at the James Joyce Centre.
Artists, musicians and writers founded the bohemian enclave of Temple Bar in the 1980s. Now the warren of car-free cobbled streets houses a hotbed of alternative culture, art-house cinema, film archives, photography, galleries, music and arts centres. On Saturday, locals head for the tasty farmers' market in Meeting House Square.
For genuine Dublin food, try the traditional fare of Dublin coddle (sausage, bacon, onion and potato stew), colcannon (mashed potato and cabbage) or boxty (a potato and flour pancake) at Gallagher's Boxty House.
Catch a show at the cutting-edge Project Arts Centre, see what's on at the National Gallery of Photography, browse vintage chic at Cow's Lane Market or sink a pint in the historic surrounds of The Palace Bar on Fleet Street.
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Thread: Sleep fighting?
28th March 2012 01:11 PM #1
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Sleep fighting?
Hello there!
Last night was one of the nights my 2-year-old son slept so late. When you look at him, it was obvious that he's so sleepy and just sleep fighting.
Can anyone here advise me how to keep my son from sleep fighting? Anything I should do to make him sleep when he is sleepy?
Thanks a lot!
28th March 2012 11:35 PM #2
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Do you have a bedtime routine? Once we were no longer co-sleeping, we started to try to put more of an effort into creating a bedtime routine, which did seem to help my children. For instance, you could play a game, put on pajamas, brush teeth, read a story or two, sing a song, give hugs, then lay down and turn the lights off. This article gives some tips for making bedtime fun. We like to play a game, but then I need to do quieter activities, such as reading, because my oldest child will get too excited and won't be able to fall asleep. I have heard good things about lavender, so you may want to try using something scented with lavender placed in his room to help him fall asleep. MY oldest child liked to have his head or back rubbed for a few minutes when he was that age, to help him fall asleep.
I would just try to make things more calm and relaxing for him. Dim the lights, play soft music, talk quietly, read a few books--anything to help encourage him to go to sleep.
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hi there!
Thanks Jessica for some info how you make your kids go to sleep with your routines.
Now, my husband and I made some routines, he plays with them for a while and when my oldest son gets his pj and put it on by himself, gets his bottle and lay down besides his dad then we would just see him asleep.
And actually, he did this by himself and we just made it to a point we do it every night so we just get used to it. Gladly, he does it now routinely.
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Sounds like you've started a good routine and it's working!
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Yes. Thankfully, it is working.


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Tate Stevens to be honored by hometown
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Country newcomer Tate Stevens is being honored by his hometown in a very special way. Belton, Missouri is paying tribute to the "X Factor" winner by putting his name on the town's water tower. Tate says the recognition means a great deal to him.
Belton, Missouri's 160-foot water tower now features the phrase "Home of Tate Stevens, Live the Dream!" Tate says he was there when the tower inscription was finished last December -- and he wasn't alone. He says a crowd of roughly 50 people had gathered to see it, and the local news was also on hand to cover the unveiling. Tate adds that he's moved to know that these people thought enough of him to honor him in this way.
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By Diana Hefley and Rikki King Herald Writers
EVERETT — The bullet that killed 15-year-old Molly Conley was one of several that was fired in what appears to be a random shooting spree in Snohomish County last month.
The suspected shooter is Erick N. Walker, a Marysville man who worked second-shift at the Boeing plant in Everett. Detectives contend that Walker is linked to Molly's death through clues left at multiple crime scenes. He is suspected of firing multiple rounds as he drove from Lake Stevens to his Marysville home in the late hours of June 1 into the early hours of June 2.
The Seattle girl was struck in the neck as she and five friends walked back from Wyatt Park in Lake Stevens on June 1. Molly was celebrating her 15th birthday, staying with one of her friends, whose father lives in Lake Stevens.
Detectives don't believe Walker, who turns 27 on Tuesday, knew Molly or any of her friends.
He also doesn't appear to have any connection to the houses and vehicles that were hit by gunfire after Molly was killed. One bullet struck a Lake Stevens home where a 15-year-old girl was babysitting her 9-year-old sister. Another bullet broke a window in a bedroom where two young children were sleeping.
No one was hurt in those shootings.
On Monday, Walker made his first court appearance since his arrest on Friday. His attorney Mark Mestel asked for the hearing to be postponed until Tuesday afternoon to give him more time to review the 20-plus page police affidavit that lays out the case against his client.
Walker remained in jail without bail; prosecutors are expected to ask for $5 million.
Detectives arrested Walker for investigation of first-degree murder and multiple counts of second-degree assault and drive-by shooting. He has not been charged. There is no indication in court documents that Walker intended to kill Molly, a straight-A freshman at Seattle's Bishop Blanchet High School. Detectives are recommending he be charged with first-degree murder under the theory that he caused the teen's death "under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to human life."
At this time, it appears Walker acted alone, reporters were told at a press conference Monday.
"Detectives are still working very hard and are continuing to work on the case," Undersheriff Tom Davis said.
Investigators say they have no motive for the shootings, and at this point Molly appears to be the victim of random gunfire.
Documents released Monday morning detail a complicated police investigation pieced together through evidence collected at multiple crime scenes and more than a dozen witness statements, including the five girls who were with Molly when she was killed.
Detectives worked around the clock, tracking down leads wherever they could. There wasn't any big tip that cracked the case, said Snohomish County sheriff's Lt. Brent Speyer.
A dozen detectives from multiple police departments "worked their tails off" for a month, Speyer said. "They had one mission and that was to get justice for Molly and her family. There is nothing more serious than when somebody takes someone else's life."
Molly collapsed on the road after her friends heard a pop that sounded like fireworks and saw an oncoming, dark-colored car drive past. The girls flagged down another car for help. The shooting was reported about 11:18 p.m.
In the hours that followed, police received reports of a several drive-by shootings in Lake Stevens and Marysville. More incidents were reported the next day when people noticed damage to their vehicles and homes. One shooting was reported at a house less than a half mile from Walker's home.
Detectives collected at least five spent rounds from the various scenes. No rounds where recovered at the homicide scene, court documents said.
The shootings appear to have been done by somebody using a .30-caliber firearm, detectives determined with the help of ballistics experts at the Washington State Patrol crime lab. Purchase records show Walker bought a .30-caliber Ruger Blackhawk handgun earlier this year at a Tulalip sporting goods store.
The weapon uses ammunition similar to that used in .30-caliber M-1 carbines. A search of Walker's home turned up the Ruger as well as two carbines, the documents say.
His Facebook page includes a prominent photo showing several firearms laid out on tables, including the type of weapons detectives believe were used in Conley's killing. Investigators haven't yet determined whether a rifle or handgun was used, but detectives were told that the bullets recovered from the drive-bys likely can be matched to a specific weapon, according to court papers.
Paint chips and damage to Walker's black Pontiac G6 coupe also are consistent with evidence left when the shooter's vehicle crashed into a car parked at one of the Marysville shootings, the documents say.
Walker was arrested as he was leaving his house Friday. He spoke with detectives for nearly three hours. Walker did not confess to killing Molly or randomly firing at houses and cars, sheriff's spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.
He reportedly gave police conflicting accounts of where he went after his shift on June 1. He reported going to a downtown Everett pub, where he said he drank up to three beers and up to three shots of whiskey. Detectives later recovered a receipt showing a $67 bar receipt printed around 10:10 p.m. When confronted about the discrepancies, Walker reportedly admitted going to Lake Stevens in search of a restaurant. He said he got lost and drove around the lake a couple of times. He said he may have seen six girls walking along a road in Lake Stevens, court papers said.
He told police his car was damaged in the Boeing parking lot a couple of weeks ago. He said he didn't report the damage to anyone and recently replaced a broken headlight.
Walker reportedly detailed the guns he owns, including the "more valuable weapons" stored at his parents Camano Island home, court papers said. A handgun and rifle were found in his car when he was arrested. Walker said he had the weapons because he had planned to go shooting over the weekend.
Molly's parents released a statement Monday, again praising detectives for their work.
"We are grateful to the Snohomish County Sheriff's Department, especially Detective Brad Pince and Undersheriff Tom Davis, for their ongoing dedication and kindness to us during this horrific time. Their efforts bring great relief to our family and the Lake Steven's community," the family wrote.
They also asked that their daughter's life not be overshadowed by the circumstances of her death.
Molly, nicknamed "4.0" for her perfect grades, inspired her classmates, teammates, friends and family "to live better lives, to find hope in the midst of hardship, and to play the game — whether soccer, lacrosse, or life — with enthusiasm, determination, and joy," her parents wrote.
Scott North contributed to this report.
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Not a normal week
Last week up to today, which is still Tuesday in most parts of the world, had not been the most normal of weeks. First, I was busier than I have been in the past with a lot of different things, both digital and non. This is not a complaint — certainly in the face of having two ZaReason laptops to review, and putting new, fast hardware through its paces when you're at your busiest is something that is a plus.
I'll get to the reviews — yeah, I swore them off after the last one I did for ZaReason, but these will be the last . . . honest — a little later this week. There will be two by both me and my daughter Mimi, for a grand total of four. Watch this space.
This past week had some pretty interesting developments, like
Robyn Bergeron, trivia question: So here's the question that will come up in various conversations way in the future — "Who was the first female lead of a major Linux distribution?" That, of course, would be Robyn Bergeron, who was given the nod to replace Jared Smith as the Fedora Project Leader. Not only does Fedora make history, but the project puts itself in incredibly capable hands with the new leader. Congratulations, Robyn.
Rumors of Kubuntu's death . . . : OK, here's the story. Listen closely: Canonical dropped funding for Kubuntu a few days ago, but that does not mean, as some bloggers have wrongfully stated, that the distro is dead. On the contrary; apparently it's going to be treated in the same way as Xubuntu, Lubuntu and the other official 'buntus. I understand that Kubuntu developers are going to meet and discuss this at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Oakland in May. If you're a Kubuntu user or have thought about contributing back to the project, now would be a good time to do so.
Coming tomorrow: LibreOffice 3.5 gets its official release tomorrow, Feb. 8. The latest release candidate is already available from the Document Foundation — go get it, either today while it's still hot from the oven, or tomorrow when it's ready.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
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The more things change…..


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Theater - Into the Woods
When Saturday April 5, 2014 @ 7:30 PM (1209 days ago)
Where University Commons, 170, MainStage Theater
Duration 3 hours
EMU Theater presents the blockbuster musical Into the Woods with book by James Lapine and music by Steven Sondheim. A winner of multiple awards (Tony Awards for best book and score, and Drama Desk Awards for outstanding musical, book and lyrics) this musical cleverly intertwines the plots of several fairy tales, taken mostly from the Brothers Grimm. In a departure from the standard story line, the musical follows these characters to explore the consequences of their wishes and quests. The main characters are from Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, Cinderella and others. The plot is woven together by an original story involving a childless baker and his wife on a quest to begin a family, and their interaction with a Witch who has placed a curse on them. Oh, and there's a giant.
Performances for Into the Woods are scheduled in the MainStage Theater at 7:30pm., April 4, 5, 10, 11, and 12, plus a matinee performance on Sunday, April 6 at 3pm. Performances run approximately three hours with an intermission.
Reserved tickets are $15 for adults ($17 at the door), and $12 for seniors & non-EMU students ($14 at the door) and are available through EMU's Box Office at 540-432-4582 or www.emu.edu/boxoffice. Group rates are available.
Dylan Bomgardner (Junior)
Bethany Chupp (Sophomore)
Heather Evans (Junior)
Andrew French
Dorothy Hershey (First-Year)
Jeremiah Hines (First-Year)
Caitlin Holsapple (First-Year)
Heidi Jablonski (Senior)
Holly Jensen (Junior)
Elisha Keener (Junior)
Eric King (Senior)
Jaclyn Kratz (Sophomore)
Katie Miller (Senior)
Ezrionna Prioleau (First-Year)
Emily Shenk (Junior)
Sarah Sutter (First-Year)
Sam Swartzendruber (Sophomore)
Isaac Tice (Senior)
Robert Weaver (First-Year)
Phil Yoder (Junior)
Rebekah York (Sophomore)
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Bruno Mars has enlisted some help from Hollywood in his new video for "Gorilla." Slumdog Millionaire actress Frieda Pinto stars in his latest clip, playing a stripper named Isabella in the seedy-looking club where Bruno and his band are performing.
The video starts with Pinto gossiping in Spanish in a back room with her fellow dancers, just before she takes the stage for a steamy performance. Luis Guzman also makes a brief cameo, as the owner of the strip club. Towards the end, Bruno and Frieda are shown getting hot and heavy in the backseat of a car.
"Gorilla" is the fourth single off Bruno's 2012 Unorthodox Jukebox album. The song is at number 26 on the Hot 100. His first two singles off the album, "Locked Out of Heaven" and "When I Was Your Man," both topped the chart.
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The main card is live in the UK on Premier Sports (Sky channel 428, Virgin 551) tonight at 9pm. The Facebook prelims are free to watch at 7.45pm. Worldwide viewing details can be found HERE.
James Pennington vs. Cory Tait
Boubacar Balde vs. Jake Bostwick
Danny Roberts vs. Juan Manuel Suarez
Benjamin Brander vs. Nad Narimani
Laura Howarth vs. Amanda Kelly
Matt Inman vs. Gregor Weibel
David Howell vs. Brad Wheeler
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Rock Hill, S.C.- Kayla Clemens and Brittany Fowler have been selected to the 2013 Preseason All-SAC First Team, the league office announced on Wednesday.
Fowler was selected to the First Team as an outfielder after hitting .339 in 41 games last season for the Tornados, sporting a .418 on-base percentage and scoring 26 runs.
Clemens received the nod as a starting pitcher after going 15-15 with a 2.26 ERA, which was tied for fifth in the South Atlantic Conference last season. Clemens had 119 strikeouts in 191.2 innings in 2012.
Around the first-team infield is Wingate catcher Betsy Braswell, L-R first baseman Jessica Fellmeth, Anderson second baseman Jessica Neidigh, L-R third baseman Haily Jarman, and Abby Child, the first-team shortstop.
Neidigh, Child and Jarman finished first, third and sixth, respectively, in the SAC in batting average in 2012. Neidigh also led the conference with 62 runs scored, Child led the league with 61 RBI, and Jarman finished first in doubles with 18.
Fellmeth's 14 home runs tied for the second most in the SAC in 2012, while Braswell's .584 slugging percentage was 10th.
LMU's Briana Mulkey and L-R's Marie Mauhar round out the first-team outfield. Mulkey's 27 stolen bases led the SAC last season, and Mauhar hit .248 with seven doubles.
LMU's Amanda Snow is the first-team designated player and Tusculum's Kaytlin Stroinski was selected as the first-team utility player. Snow led the Railsplitters in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, hits, RBI and home runs in 2012, while Stroinski led TC in batting average, slugging percentage, OBP, runs, hits and home runs.
Tusculum pitcher Elizabeth Johnson was the other First Team starting pitcher. Johnson also had a 2.26 ERA, and recorded 125 strikeouts.
Making up the second-team infield are Catawba catcher Tara Gibbs, Carson-Newman first baseman Caitlyn Lance, Tusculum second baseman Nicole Ball, Lenoir-Rhyne shortstop Jody Mizelle and C-N third baseman Sara Kelley.
L-R's Brittany Coursen, Anderson's Rebecca Martin and Catawba's Amanda Terry form the second-team outfield, while Mars Hill's Robyn Stanek was named the designated player and Newberry's Brittany Phillips was voted the utility player.
Catawba's Emily Huneycutt and Mars Hill's Taylor Morris were selected as the second-team pitchers.
Fellmeth, Neidigh, Child, Mulkey, Fowler, Snow, Stroinski and Johnson were all members of the 2012 All-SAC First Team, while Braswell, Jarman, Mauhar, Clemens, Lance, Coursen, Martin and Phillips were second-team selections last year.
First Team
C Betsy Braswell, WU
1B Jessica Fellmeth, L-R
2B Jessica Neidigh, AU
SS Abby Child, AU
3B Haily Jarman, L-R
OF Briana Mulkey, LMU
OF Brittany Fowler, BC
OF Marie Mauhar, L-R
DP Amanda Snow, LMU
Util. Kaytlin Stroinski, TC
SP Elizabeth Johnson, TC
SP Kayla Clemens, BC
Second Team
C Tara Gibbs, CAT
1B Caitlyn Lance, C-N
2B Nicole Ball, TC
SS Jody Mizelle, L-R
3B Sara Kelley, C-N
OF Brittany Coursen, L-R
OF Rebecca Martin, AU
OF Amanda Terry, CAT
DP Robyn Stanek, MHC
Util. Brittany Phillips, NEW
SP Emily Huneycutt, CAT
SP Taylor Morris, MHC