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Join us on Friday, June 28th from 5:30 - 9pm for a Backyard Benefit for the Youth Education Program (YEP)
Summer will be in full swing, so swing by the American Mountaineering Center lawn for the Colorado Mountain Club's inaugural Backyard Benefit for CMC's Youth Education Program! There's no better way to enjoy a summer night than joining us on June 28th for an evening of food, beverages, lawn games, live bluegrass music, a silent auction and a great cause.
Remind yourself what being a barefoot and carefree kid is all about as you munch on bbq, play lawn games and dance like no one is watching. Or just sit back, put your feet up, and listen to some good music with good people. Enjoy a cold beer from Odell Brewery or a refreshing glass of chardonnay, iced tea or a delicious Oogave natural soda. The best part is, you'll be raising money for underprivileged youth in your community. So grab your picnic blanket and lawn chair and get ready to relax on a summer night filled with food, friends and fun and help us to raise money to give more kids than ever before the opportunity to learn and explore all Colorado has to offer!
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Can't attend the benefit, but still want to help?
Thrivent Financial is a proud sponsor of CMC's inaugural Backyard Benefit fundraiser on Friday, June 28th! Thrivent is committed to serving the community and specifically YEP!
If you can't attend the Backyard Benefit, you can still help make a difference! Help us reach our goal of giving 100 kids the opportunity to participate in a YEP climbing program next school year. For every child you sponsor, Thrivent will match the donation and sponsor a second child! Make your donation go further and help us make an impact in the lives of deserving youth in the community.
For only $15, send two children from an urban school to a day of climbing with YEP. Click here to sponsor a child for one day!
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Confidence, courage, academic achievement, mountain safety, and responsible recreation—that's what CMC's Youth Education Program is all about. In 2012, the CMC's Youth Education Program (YEP) provided opportunities for 7,418 to experience the natural world through active learning adventures – essential opportunities to help combat childhood obesity and prevent "nature deficit disorder." Imagine learning about Colorado's geology while rock climbing, taking a math class to measure slope angles and avalanche danger, or learning about human physiology and the effects of altitude during a snowshoe hike. CMC's unique program connects math and science with the school curriculum for elementary, middle, and high school students. Students with special needs or from disadvantaged backgrounds also benefitted from the personal challenge and inter-relationship skills they developed on mountain adventures. In 2012, the CMC awarded a total of $22,641 in need-based scholarships to 2,688 youth.
Through YEP, we "bring the mountains" to students with activities and field trips that teach mountain weather, avalanche science, physics of rock climbing, altitude physiology, conservation, and a variety of other academic topics, in addition to youth development. Our innovative program has helped provide leadership development and academic opportunities for more than 70,000 youth from Colorado since its inception in 1999. Many of these students would otherwise not have had access to mountain topics or outdoor recreation experiences.
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An extensive investigation into recent vehicle break-ins has led to the arrest of two Bluffton residents.
Since January 2012 to present, there have been 57 vehicle break-ins within the Town of Bluffton. All vehicles were reported unlocked and there was no forced entry. The majority of items stolen were electronic items and U.S. currency. These incidents centered on the following communities; Pinecrest, Pineridge, Bluffton Park, the Farm, Hampton Hall, and Wellstone.
Investigators who have been working the cases were able to obtain a store video in which two individuals, Al Jordan Mitchell, 19 and Alfonza Powell, 18, were seen using a stolen gift card from one of the vehicles. A search warrant was obtained for Mitchell and Powell's residence, located on Simmonsville Road in Bluffton.
There were approximately 12 GPS systems, one handgun, several iPods and cell phones, and one set of car keys (from a stolen vehicle) which were recovered from the residence. This evidence linked these suspects to 25 different cases. A total of 37 felony charges of Breaking into a Motor Vehicle were filed against Powell and Mitchell. Powell is currently being held at the Beaufort County Detention Center on a $125,000 Bond. Mitchell is being held at the Beaufort County Detention center on a $55,000 Bond.
During the investigation, it was discovered that these individuals would walk communities late at night looking for unlocked vehicles. When one was found, they would enter the vehicle and take any small valuables or loose change found inside the vehicle. Investigators are in the process of notifying victims, however, if you are a victim of a recent vehicle break in, you are encouraged to contact the Bluffton Police Department to identify any recovered items that may be yours at 843-706-4550.
These incidents are crimes of opportunity. The Bluffton Police Department suggests to residents that they secure their vehicles at all times when left unattended and to remove anything of value from them.


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Wolves Sign Chris Johnson To 2nd 10-Day Contract
The Minnesota Timberwolves today announced the team has signed center Chris Johnson to a second 10-day contract. Johnson was originally signed to a 10-day contract on Jan. 19.
Johnson has appeared in five games for the Wolves, averaging 9.2 points, on .720 (18-for-25) shooting, and 3.8 rebounds in 17.2 minutes per game.
Johnson playing in 14 games with the Santa Cruz Warriors of the NBA D-League this season where he was averaging 10.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 25.6 minutes in 14 games.
Johnson, 27, was a free agent invitee at the Wolves training camp this past fall. He appeared in three preseason games for Minnesota, and averaged 2.0 points and 1.0 rebounds in 5.0 minutes per game. Johnson was waived on Oct. 27, 2012.
The 6-11 center has played parts of two NBA seasons with Boston, Portland and New Orleans. He started the 2011-12 season with Portland, averaging 1.6 points and 0.9 rebounds in 20 contests. Johnson finished the 2011-12 season in New Orleans where he averaged 3.3 points and 3.1 rebounds in seven contests. In 41 career games, he holds averages of 2.1 points and 1.5 rebounds.
Johnson averaged 16.2 points, 9.2 rebounds and 2.8 blocks during the 2010-11 season for the Dakota Wizards and was named the 2011 NBA D-League Defensive Player of the Year. Spent his collegiate years at Louisiana State University and went undrafted in the 2009 NBA Draft.
For more news and notes on the team follow the Minnesota Timberwolves and Mark Remme on Twitter, and join the conversation at WolvesNation.com.


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Raidmax Hurricane Review
One of the most important components of a computer build is the case; it determines the ease of the system build, the longevity of the system as a whole, and the thermal performance of the system. Often, a decent case is overlooked due to budget, leaving a less desirable system build. This is where Raidmax comes in with the Hurricane. Raidmax is known for their computer cases that have the looks and performance of more expensive cases, but at a more affordable price tag. The Hurricane is available in 6 sixdifferent colors with or without a power supply. Touting three included fans, a side window, and LED lighting all for around $40, the Raidmax Hurricane just may be the perfect middle ground between cost and performance.
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The Raidmax Hurricane comes in a standard cardboard box (there isn't really much room for innovation here). The front and back both have similar frontal views of the case, but the back has some thumbnails and brief descriptions of the special features of the case. The sides are also nearly identical, both containing the basic specifications of the case and the available colors.
The packaging is simple, yet effective. Two molded foam pieces protect the case from shock during shipping, while the plastic bag protects from scratches.
Inside the case you'll find a small bag of hardware, the system speaker, and the manual.
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Chapman Valdez & Lansing is a Casper, Wyoming-based firm of trial and commercial lawyers. Mr. Chapman and the firm have been given an AV designation by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, the highest rating reflecting legal knowledge and professional ethics.
Mr. Chapman was appointed as Wyoming's first state public defender in 1978 by Governor Edward Herschler. Chapman Valdez has represented seriously injured individuals, criminal defendants, and civil plaintiffs for over twenty five years.
Mr. Lansing represents many of the large corporations located in Natrona County, Wyoming.
We utilize state-of-the-art technology and cost-effective methods to provide services in an aggressive, timely, ethical, and professional manner. We respond promptly to telephone calls and report on cases regularly. We represent clients at every level of the Wyoming state and federal court system. Chapman Valdez & Lansing provides free case evaluations for personal injury and professional malpractice cases.
Most personal injury cases are handled on a contingency fee basis. Our firm invests in your case, paying all the up-front costs. In these particular cases, you owe us nothing for our services until you receive a monetary award.


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Andrew J. Imparato is the first full-time President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), a national non-profit membership organization for the political and economic empowerment of all people with disabilities in the U.S. With more than 100,000 members, AAPD is the largest cross-disability membership organization in the U.S. and is based in Washington, DC.
Imparato recently organized and led a coalition of more than 200 disability, civil rights and employer organizations to enact the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, which was signed into law by President Bush on September 25, 2008. The bill overturns four problematic U.S. Supreme Court decisions interpreting the ADA and restores protections under the ADA to millions of Americans with epilepsy, diabetes, depression, cancer and a wide range of other disabilities. Imparato testified before the House Education and Labor Committee in support of the bill, played a key role in the negotiations that led to the employer-supported legislative language, and oversaw the political strategy to get the bill passed with overwhelming bipartisan support.
In September 2005, Imparato was honored by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce ("Jaycees") as one of "Ten Outstanding Young Americans" who are selected annually for their contributions to American society. In 2006, Imparato was honored by US Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta for his efforts to promote universal accessible transportation and by US Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt for his leadership at AAPD.
Prior to joining AAPD, Imparato was general counsel and director of policy for the National Council on Disability, an attorney advisor with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, counsel to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy, and a staff attorney/Skadden Fellow with the Disability Law Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
Imparato, whose perspective is informed by his own experience with bipolar disorder, is frequently called upon to write, speak or provide testimony about disability issues. His essay on the U.S. Supreme Court's rulings relating to disability rights appears in The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right (H. Schwartz, ed., Hill and Wang, 2002). He co-authored an article in 2003 for the Stanford Law & Policy Review that laid the foundation for the ADA Amendments Act, "Redefining 'Disability' Discrimination: A Proposal to Restore Civil Rights Protections for All Workers" (14 Stan L & Pol Rev 2, with Claudia Center, 2003). Imparato is an advisor on corporate social responsibility, consumer, disability market, equal employment opportunity and accessibility issues for Verizon, Time Warner, AT&T, Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Wal-Mart, and other leading businesses.
Imparato graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School and is a summa cum laude graduate of Yale College. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and two sons, ages 15 and 10.


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El Dorado LLC is a virtual theme park based off of the perception of 1990s southern California
The virtual battlefields of the of the Cosmic Era
Wonder World LLC is the largest operator of virtual theme parks, amusement parks, and other non-sport, non-mmo virtual environments.
Poison's variation on Tucker's Kobolds.
A lighthearted Pathfinder adventure intended for a group of four retired adventurers level 17-20 who have come into possession of The Verbing Noun.
Even as humans can be, the Kel'Regar, too, can be touched by madness, and it can drive them to push to ends incomprehensible by the sane. The work of one such, Kararemi'ar'Salm'Torat, the Menangerie of Mad Creation, is a twisted, living structure, tormented by years of loneliness and incomprehensible need.
The Earth shifts, revealing a horror beyond time and reason…
When want and famine stalk the land, a strange tower of ashes appears in the village common, a tower holding the sacrifices of the unworthy. Those who have the courage may reclaim these treasures…
Do you know of the most precious of my stones? You should be familiar with the Jewels of the Jaw, you have several my dear.
For three long days the violent storm had ravaged the town of Iolinas, and the townsfolk had begun to wonder if it would ever end. Strangely, towards the end of the third day, the rain stopped suddenly, though the winds still buffetted the town relentlessly; some townsfolk thought it was finally the break in the storm. Others thought it was a portent of worse things to come… These people were correct.
On a sprawling mound of steel and rust and hate sits a clockwork castle, the technological dread that is a machineâ??s delusion.
One of the most popular "Quests" in Dream Park for the 2071-72 season, The Red Ghost and the Crypt of the Ebony Princess has been made into a novel (by Elsmyth himself), a full theatre video, expanded into a broadcast series, and a lack luster home game. It is considered Elsmyth's finest work before his nervous breakdown.
Hidden above an alcove behind a forgotten waterfall could be one of the last intact temples of a long persecuted religious order dedicated to the worship of their water elemental patron.
The dread pirate Corvorane was legendary even after his capture and conversion to a privateer. His secret fortress and hidden treasure are of equal fame. But more than gold lurks in the depths of Corvorane's Cave.
In the trackless Frozen Waste, at the heart of the Sra lands lies the sacred glacier Ganamed, wherein lies Illyana's Palace, the great ice necropolis of the Sra tribe.
A long forgotten city, with surprising inhabitants.
Deep below the small, peacful country of Vorbild is a dark, impossible maze filled with the countries bad-eggs.
The First Men buried their Kings and "Big People" (Nobles and other Important people) in underhills - tombs made under hills of earth called Barrows. While this custom seems quite common, the First Men were not. The First Men were closer to The Mythics - The Shidhe (Elves) and Dwarves - and The True Dreaming Magics than Modern Men. Thus entering their barrows means you are entering a different world and time.
Enacted roughly 4 years ago, the Dungeon Preservation act sought to map out and better understand the dungeon ecosystem, and to protect it.
Department of Dungeon Preservation
From a low hillock in a vast plain, the entrance to the Noil Ruins is as unobtrusive as it is a gateway to wonder…
Through mud and hate and rain,
Through blood and rot and pain,
The bell tolls for victim next,
To save Saint Ithiel, the Ashfeather Hex
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How Jayel became the proprietor of the Wanton Wench is more or less a hand-waved affair by the local officials. The facts known by 'upstanding' folk are that a fresh-faced young girl by the name of Jayel came into Gatewatch, disappeared, and reappeared the aged and stern woman she is today. The facts known by the night watch are a marked decrease in drug trafficking and battered women appearing on the streets. The fact known by Jayel is that she killed a man with her bare hands, and has never looked back.


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Docent chair, 2010–2012
Anita Bonanni first discovered the Memorial Art Gallery not long after arriving in Rochester. Transplanted from Brooklyn in 1962 along with her physician husband, she discovered that the Gallery was an affordable place for a young couple to spend a Sunday afternoon. What's more, says Bonanni, "it's a magnificent collection."
But it would be a few more years before she could really indulge her love of art. The Brooklyn College graduate was already a mother of three (soon to be four) when she earned her masters in education at UR. She would go on to spend 20 years at Rush-Henrietta High School, where she taught reading to high risk and learning disabled students. After retiring in 2002, she gravitated back to the Gallery and joined the docent class of 2003–04.
"While you're volunteering," says Bonanni, "you're learning. It's one of the nicest aspects of being a docent."
Above all, she loves sharing what she's learned with tour groups, particularly schoolchildren. "It's the kids who are the most enthusiastic," says Bonanni. And the evidence is clear that the Gallery does a terrific job of reaching out to this audience; in 2009–10 alone 9,366 students from pre-K through high school participated in docent-led tours of the Gallery.
The excitement doesn't stop after high school, as Bonanni's husband can attest. A professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, Dr. Philip Bonanni has accompanied medical students on staff- and docent-led tours designed to help future docs sharpen their observation skills.
For adults, there are other innovative programs where the education department uses the docent corps to reach out to audiences ranging from corporate visitors to Alzheimer's patients and other visitors with special needs.
The docent program began informally in the 1960s and officially kicked off in 1968 with the adoption of bylaws and the institution of formal training. Over the years, some 400 men and women, of whom 100 are still active, have led tours for more than half a million schoolchildren and adults.
Docents come to the program from many walks of life. Some are retired, and some juggle their docent responsibilities with busy professional lives. All share a love of art and a belief that life is richer for it. And all make a major time commitment—a year of rigorous weekly training followed by frequent refreshers and a minimum of 25 tours a year.
As chair, Bonanni works with other docent committee members and the Gallery's education department to plan educational programs and social activities and the group's semimonthly meetings. She's also an ex officio member of the Gallery's Board of Managers, where she represents and reports on the docents.
"I'm glad to be the face of the docents," says Bonanni. "I represent a terrific group of dedicated people. And I can't say enough good things about the Gallery's education department. They keep us spoiled."
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The Mussle Chair: Vintage With A Modern Twist
We love the world of modern children's furniture. It's finally starting to take a real leap (even in big box retail stores) from media and sponsored items, like say a Dora the Explorer foam chair to more classical pieces that have a chance of lasting more than a season. This piece is intended to be a chair for adults and a sofa for kids and we think it's definitely a step in the right direction.
This chair was created by Danish design student Hanne Kortegaard (pictured above), who's been hard at work creating a piece that pulls double duty. She was looking for something that was comfortable for adults and children alike while still keeping a small footprint and being able to provide comfort in several ways.
The chair can be used as a sofa for children, a chair for adults and the pillow or cushion can be removed to be used as a footstool or lounge pillow for tv watching or reading from the floor. We love the direction that children's furniture has been taking and we hope these kinds of innovative designs will eventually trickle down to an affordable retailer near you (even if it takes a little while.) Makes you wish you went to school for furniture design so you could make your own doesn't it?
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Distance from Kalama, WA to Mason City, IA
Driving distance between Kalama, WA and Mason City, IA is 1,839.84 miles (or 2,960.94 kilometers). If you drove an average car (using about 3.6 gallons of gas per mile), the gas would cost you around $, since you would need about gallons of fuel.
Leaving from Kalama, WA you would reach Mason City, IA in about 1 day 2 hours if you keep an average speed of miles per hour, assuming you don't make any breaks or get stuck in traffic.


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4th liners provide spark as Sharks take 2-0 series lead with 7-2 win vs. Kings
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – Fourth-liners Mike Brown and Raffi Torres scored second-period goals to spark a San Jose comeback and lead the Sharks to a 7-2 victory Sunday over the Los Angeles Kings and a 2-0 lead in their first-round series.
Justin Braun, Patrick Marleau, Joe Pavelski, Logan Couture and Joe Thornton also scored for the Sharks, who overcame a two-goal deficit after the first period of a playoff game for just the third time in 26 tries in franchise history. Antti Niemi made 24 saves.
Jake Muzzin and Trevor Lewis scored first-period goals before Jonathan Quick allowed seven goals in the final two periods. Los Angeles heads home for Game 3 on Tuesday looking to get back into this series.
The Kings can take comfort in the fact that the home team has won 18 of the previous 19 games between these teams, including nine in the playoffs.


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Tim Johnson is a self-described energy geek, the kind of guy who has the website of Ontario's electricity system operator set as his home page.
While the rest of us are busy on Twitter reading about Avril Lavigne's engagement to Nickelback front man Chad Kroeger, Johnson is combing through hourly data on the operation of the province's grid.
How much electricity are we using? What types of generation are meeting demand? Is there enough supply? How much are we importing and exporting?
People who are passionate about the industry — myself included — live and breathe this stuff. We tend, however, to assume that the general public has the same level of interest or knowledge.
"But the complexity has outpaced the level of communication that industry is providing to consumers," said Johnson. "It's a shame, because we really have an interesting story here in Ontario."
We are all "gridizens" in one way or another, he said, and we're all connected to a provincial electricity system going through a major transition. The power mix is changing. Electricity is being delivered in different ways. Electric cars are coming. Houses and buildings are getting smarter.
This modernization of the grid is going to be costly, and we are all going to pay for it. For this reason, it's in our interest to understand what we're getting, how it operates, and the impacts of our individual actions.
After years in the energy-industry trenches, Johnson decided to tackle the challenge of energy illiteracy head on. Last June, the Ottawa resident founded a company called EnergyMobile Studios, which is "devoted to building smart, functional, beautiful apps that simplify and save energy."
I first learned of EnergyMobile last week after searching Apple's App Store for energy-related iPhone applications. A free app called Gridwatch, which the company had just released, quickly caught my eye. What it offers is a clear and simple snapshot of how Ontario's power system is performing on an hourly basis.
It tells you how many megawatts of power are being generated (it also defines a megawatt for you) and whether this is considered low, high or average for the time of day and day of the year. It then breaks down the different electricity sources that are contributing to the mix.
At 6 a.m. on Thursday, for example, it told me power generation was at 14,550 megawatts and that nuclear power represented 70.8 per cent of the mix. Hydro was at 16.1 per cent, natural gas at 9.7 per cent, wind at 1.7 per cent and coal just 0.5 per cent. Click on each source and you get even more detail: a list of each power plant in the fleet, what they're capable of generating and how much they actually are generating during that hour.
"You can see all this information online already," explained Johnson, pointing to the various reports and charts available on the website of Ontario's Independent Electricity System Operator. But it's not easy to find and mostly geared to energy geeks like him.
Gridwatch is designed to be anti-geek in this respect. It also goes a step further, offering information that even the government or the system operator has neglected to make publicly available, despite calls to do so from the province's environmental commissioner.
Related: Ontario lags on conservation, says environmental commissioner
The app tells you how many tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) emissions are being produced from the electricity system on an hourly basis, and compares this to the numbers of cars on the road or how many trees it would take to absorb these emissions.
To do this, EnergyMobile partnered up with Niagara College and carbon management software firm e3 Solutions, which spent 18 months working on a formula to accurately calculate power generation emissions in Ontario.
They basically analyzed the carbon intensity of every single power plant in the province. "It's going further than anybody we've seen so far in the marketplace," said Johnson, who feels that giving the public this information could spur meaningful behavioural changes.
"Let's face it, people don't have to change," he said. "Electricity is still relatively cheap compared to other markets worldwide, and it's reliable. Right now, you're likely paying more for your cellphone than your power. So people have to want to change.
"But if you do want to change, you need to be dissatisfied with the way things are, and understand that if you make personal changes what the impact will be. That's why energy literacy is so important."
Gridwatch isn't the company's first app. In April, it launched a tool called Powercents (currently free, but has been priced at $1.99) that helps electricity users keep track of different time-of-use rates and when they kick in. The app can even been set to alert you when, for example, off-peak prices are in effect.
On top of that, the app offers a variety of energy saving tips and will tell you how much you can save by using certain appliances during off-peak hours instead of on-peak or mid-peak. It's a tremendously handy tool that I can see teachers embracing as a way to educate students about energy conservation. Likewise for Gridwatch.
Johnson called both apps "passion projects" that aren't currently money-makers for his five-person company. His hope is that the energy minister, system operator, power authority or some of the province's utilities see the value of the tools and offer to partner up.
"We're working right now to galvanize some deals with utilities," he said. "We think it's a good fit, and we'd love to be offering this on their behalf."
EnergyMobile is working on its next two apps: Heatcents, focused on energy conservation around home heating, and Watercents, focused on water conservation. Over time, and if deals start flowing in Ontario, Johnson plans to enter new geographic markets. Some U.S. jurisdictions are already showing interest, as well as a utility in Helsinki.
"We believe Ontario is a complicated market," he said. "If we can cut our teeth here, it really positions us to do well in other deregulated markets."
Tyler Hamilton, author of Mad Like Tesla, writes weekly about green energy and clean technologies.


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Why not just batch sparge?
Quote from: gmac on November 24, 2012, 02:12:38 AMWhy not just batch sparge?+1! Would save a lot of time and energy compared to what you are doing now.
onto a plate held above the grain bed (using gloves of course). It can be a pain, especially when I'd rather be measuring the runoff pH and grav.
Many times I just poured it back directly with no deflector and it never mattered.
First I'll say I've nothing against batch sparging.I built a manifold from copper pipe (it was cheap back in the day) with slits I made with a hacksaw. It rests on the top of the cooler and drips across the surface of the water. I control the flow with a tubing clamp on the hose from the HLT.


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Oh, hi there. It's been awhile. I just concluded my Top 100 Dodgers' prospect series over at Dodgers Digest. Here's a link to every entry in the series.
The Dodgers' farm system is as strong as it has been in years. It's considered a Top 10 system by most publications, as it has a lot of top-end talent and improved depth. So, head over to Dodgers Digest to check it out (and the supplemental pieces to follow).
Also, it'd be swell if the Dodgers signed Yoan Moncada so I could add him to the list.
Photo credit: Dustin Nosler, Dodgers Digest


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May 16, 2013
AMERICUS - The Georgia Southwestern Hurricane Baseball program would like to invite all high school-eligible players for the upcoming 2013-14 academic year to its 2013 GSW High School Prospect Camp.
The camp will be held on Saturday, Aug. 24 at Hurricane Stadium on the campus of Georgia Southwestern State University. Same-day registration will open at 8:30 a.m. with stretching scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Cost is $110 per player, and anyone with questions should contact assistant coach Nick Tracy at email@example.com
2013 GSW High School Prospect Camp
- WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 24 - Warm Up begins at 9:30 a.m.
- WHERE: Hurricane Stadium - Georgia Southwestern State University
- WHO: All high school players


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Earth Island Institute
Borneo Project
Website: http://borneoproject.org
The Borneo Project provides US-based support for ongoing campaigns to promote indigenous rights and conserve the forest in Indonesian and Malaysian Borneo. We do this through providing small grants, online actions, sign on letters, and international advocacy on forest and climate issues.
Director: Jettie Word
c/o Earth Island Institute
2150 Allston Way, Suite 460
Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel: (505) 250-3843
Fax: (510) 859-9091
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Initially I read this line fairly comfortably, but I was puzzled by the number of [face=SPIonic]e(/kastoj[/face].
I translated it as follows; The men have two eyes each, and ten fingers, and they have a voice and hearing and a mind.
In this translation, 'each' belongs to 'men', so it should agree with it in number, but it doesn't.
where did I go wrong?
Ps. Shouldn't the accent on [face=SPIonic]a)koh/n [/face]be a grave?


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Daniel Brinzas
Published on June 25, 2014
2 #237635 ©2012 IDC SITUATION OVERVIEW The Real-Time Enterprise Challenge Enterprises are struggling to keep up with the demands of business in a globally, electronically connected world. Not only do events that require response come at an ever- quickening pace, but business intelligence (BI) about customers and competitors may be gleaned from vast amounts of ever-changing data on the Internet, if only it can be rapidly acquired and processed. Business managers know that their competitors are chasing this intelligence as fast as they are. How can a modern enterprise keep up with the pace of business demands and also gain an edge from timely business intelligence? The key is in the ability to acquire and ingest all the necessary data and to act on that data with as little delay as possible. This means dealing with streaming data from external sources and sensor and other machine-generated data from internal sources. It means adopting Big Data technologies to collect and ingest large amounts of business intelligence data quickly. Additionally, it means having a core data management platform that can enable applications to put all the pieces together and act in a timely manner. Memory-based database technology powering an IMDB needs to be at the heart of such a platform. What Is a Real-Time Enterprise? A real-time enterprise can act on events as they happen rather than wait for relevant information to be entered into the system, stored, compiled, and made available for query and reporting. A real-time enterprise needs to handle shifting external factors such as customer demand, supplier pricing and product availability, and operational costs as well as internal factors such as logistics, inventory, and production rates. This is not simply about producing an "executive dashboard." This is about marshalling IT resources based on the current situation on the ground as it changes. It is about automated decision generation and action and about supporting just-in- time tactical decisions. It affects both transactional operational systems and analytic systems, including operational BI. Big Data in Motion and at Rest Part of what drives the real-time enterprise is Big Data. Most people are familiar with Big Data at rest, which involves collecting large amounts of data that may be either streaming, machine-generated data or unorganized collections of content; filtering, ordering, and formatting that data; and making the data available to drive decisions and actions. Hadoop falls into this category, and most Big Data at rest solutions, including those based on Hadoop, are batch oriented or have a batch component to them. As a result, there is always a delay of minutes to hours from when the data arrives and when it is available to drive actions. For some classes of decisions and actions, this is fine; for others, not so much. Big Data in motion is different. This also involves large amounts of streaming data, but instead of ingesting the data and then examining it, this approach involves recognizing events in the data and taking immediate action. Such technology


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One Direction - Kids' Choice Awards 2012 Performance!
One Direction walk the orange carpet at the 2012 Kids Choice Awards held at the USC Galen Center in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon (March 31).
The guys – Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik, and Liam Payne – took to the stage during the show to perform their hit single "What Makes You Beautiful".
During the performance, Selena Gomez, Katy Perry, Ashley Tisdale, and Taylor Swift stood in the audience together and danced their hearts out!
Make sure to watch 1D's performance on Saturday Night Live next weekend!


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The following people were arrested on felony charges by law enforcement agencies in Davidson County, and, unless noted otherwise, were either placed in the Davidson County Detention Center or released from custody and are scheduled to appear in Lexington District Court on the date given:
• Chandra Olivia Hill, 39, of 611 Knollwood Drive, Thomasville, was charged with felony possession of stolen goods/property, felony obtaining property by false pretense and unlawful transport/possession of copper, $3,500 secured bond, May 29, Thomasville.
• John Scott Watkins, 41, of 6076 Kennedy Road, Trinity, was charged with felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, felony larceny, felony possession of stolen goods/property, felony obtaining property by false pretense and unlawful transport of copper, $5,000 secured bond, May 29, Thomasville.
• Thomas Jordan Williams, 19, of 293 Regina Drive, Thomasville, was charged with felony possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, $2,000 secured bond, May 28.
• Zachary Allen Tucker, 24, of 941 Jones Road, Winston-Salem, was charged with two counts of felony breaking and entering and a count each of felony breaking and entering and misdemeanor larceny (all Yadkin County charges), $2,500 secured bond, June 2, Yadkinville.
• Heather Nicole Williams, 28, of 3157 N.C. Highway 150 South, was charged with driving while impaired, driving while license revoked, felony flee/elude arrest with motor vehicle, three counts of lane change signal violation, failure to stop — steady red light, speeding, two counts of failure to maintain lane control, two counts of driving left of center, open container malt beverage/unfortified wine in city/county, resisting public officer, failure to stop — steady red light, reckless driving to endanger and possession of nontax paid alcohol beverages, $5,000 secured bond, custody release, June 25.


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Peanut farmers in North Carolina now have an advisory to help them assess the risk of moving from conventional to reduced-tillage systems. Interest in reduced-tillage in peanuts has been on the increase in North Carolina because of changes in the peanut program and the incidence of tomato spotted wilt virus.
The advisory should help farmers determine on a field-by-field basis whether the risk is worth the benefits.
David Jordan, North Carolina State peanut agronomist, and one of the principal authors of the advisory index, says research suggests that reduced-tillage systems can work for peanuts in North Carolina.
Authors include Rick Brandenburg, Extension entomologist; Barbara Shew, Extension pathologist; and George Naderman, former Extension soil scientist; and Steve Barnes, former superintendent of the Peanut Belt Research Station; and Clyde Bogle, superintendent, Upper Coastal Plain Research Station, N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
"Growers adopting reduced-tillage systems may need to spend more time in overall management of peanuts, particularly early in the season," Jordan says. "This especially applies to weed management."
That means moving away from soil-incorporated to pre-emergence and post-emergence herbicides and preparing strip-tilled beds in the fall.
Savings in tillage costs are often offset by increased herbicide costs in reduced-tillage, Jordan says.
In many cases, yield is lower in reduced-tillage than in conventional-tillage systems. That's why it's important to assess the risk to peanut yield before using reduced-tillage in a particular field, Jordan says.
Drawing on the advisory model of the TSWV Risk Index, the "Index for Transitioning from Conventional to Reduced-Tillage Peanut Production in North Carolina" assigns points to determine low risk, moderate risk and high risk of reducing tillage in peanuts.
A low risk is a total number of 30 points or less; a moderate risk, 35 points to 65 points; and a high risk, 70 or more points.
The index considers market type, irrigation, soil series, tillage intensity, small grain cover and history of TSWV. The Index does not incorporate the economic impact of each component.
When transitioning to reduced-tillage, a low-risk scenario would involve planting Georgia Green under irrigation on a Conetone series soil, strip-tilled in beds with a winter cover crop and a history of TSWV. In fact, this scenario is ideal because it totals zero. It would be highly unlikely to reduce all negative risk to reduced-tillage in peanuts, Jordan says.
A real world example of a 25-point, low risk would include planting Gregory without irrigation on a Norfolk sandy loam, strip-tilled into with a winter cover crop and a history of TSWV.
An example of high risk of lowering yield under reduced-tillage: NC 12 C planted with no irrigation on Roanoke soil, no-tilled flat, with no winter cover crop and no history of TSWV. This scenario goes to the opposite end of the risk range at 110 points.
An example of moderate risk, at 45 points, would involve planting NC-V 11 with no irrigation on Norfolk soils, strip-tilled flat with a winter cover crop and a history of TSWV.
Another moderate-risk example: Planting Gregory without irrigation on Craven soils, strip-tilled in beds with a winter cover crop and a history of TSWV. This scenario would total 55 points.
Because Virginia-type peanuts have larger pods than runner-type peanuts, they have a greater risk of reducing yield because they are more difficult to remove from the ground. "Greater resistance from soil can cause a higher percentage of pods to strip away from the vines," Jordan says. Under the index, Virginia-type peanuts are assigned a risk of 5 points, while runner peanuts because of their size don't pose a risk.
Irrigation or timely rainfall can help create soil conditions that minimize pod loss during harvest. Irrigation serves as insurance if soil conditions are less than favorable at harvest. No irrigation is assigned a 10-point risk level in the index.
Pod loss on finer-textured soils such as Roanoke and Craven series is often greater than on coarser-textured soils such as Conetone and Wanda regardless of the tillage system. In the Index, Roanoke and Craven pose the greatest risk to pod loss at 40 points. Goldsboro and Lynchburg soils are assigned 20 points while Norfolk soil is assigned 10 points. Conetone and Wanda soils pose zero risk to pod loss when converting to reduced-tillage.
How peanuts respond to reduced-tillage systems is invariably correlated with the degree of tillage. Digging peanuts can be difficult when peanuts are planted on flat ground in reduced-tillage systems. Strip-tillage into flat ground is a better alternative, but not as good as strip-tillage into pre-formed beds. Peanuts grown on strip-tilled, pre-formed beds often have yields approaching those of conventional-tillage. In the Index, no-tillage into flat ground, at 40 points, poses the greatest risk to decreased yields to reduced-tillage. Strip-tillage into flat ground has a risk of 20 points in the Index. Strip-tillage into stale seedbeds has zero risk.
A small grain cover crop conserves soil moisture and reduced wind and water erosion. It also contributes to soil tilth and can minimize winter weed populations. A cover crop can also can make the choice of a burndown herbicide easier. Under the Index, the absence of a cover crop adds 5 points to the risk of reducing yields.
It's been documented that reduced-tillage means less TSWV and fewer thrips. "Generally speaking, there is less risk of yields being lower in reduced-tillage systems if the virus has occurred in the past because reduced-tillage systems suppress TSWV," Jordan says. "The increased yield as a result of TSWV suppression may offset at least a portion of yield loss that might have occurred due to other agronomic or pest management practices in reduced-tillage systems."
As in other advisories, Jordan is quick to point out that there's little way to reduce all the risk. "The Advisory Index is a way to help producers determine if converting to reduced-tillage may be a risky move," Jordan says.
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BiologyFound in shallow inshore reef habitats, often in strong current zones to about 15 m depth (Ref. 48636). Are protandrous hermaphrodites (Ref. 55367). Each pair is monogamous (Ref. 55367). Each anemone with a large female, a smaller functional male and several stunted juveniles; with the removal of the female, the male changes sex and the largest of the juveniles develops into a functional male (Ref. 4391). Oviparous, distinct pairing during breeding (Ref. 205). Eggs are demersal and adhere to the substrate (Ref. 205). Males guard and aerate the eggs (Ref. 205). Associated with the anemones: Heteractis magnifica, and Stichodactyla mertensii (Ref. 5911). May be reared in captivity (Ref. 35420).


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LONDON - January 31, 2014 --It won't make peanut allergies a thing of the past but researchers are encouraged by the results of an experimental new therapy in Britain.
Doctors fed children with peanut allergies small amounts of peanut flour to retrain their immune systems. After 6 months, more than 80 percent of the subjects could safely eat a handful of the previously worrisome nuts.
Experts warn parents not to try it at home.
Peanut allergies are on the rise and affect about 1 in 50 children, mostly in high-income countries. The consequences can be life-threatening - peanuts are the most common cause of fatal food allergy reactions. The only safe bet is avoiding peanuts.
The intention of the treatment isn't to help kids eat large amounts of peanuts, but to prevent a life-threatening allergic reaction in case they accidentally eat trace amounts.


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Defending the Bizarre Against the Obvious
I hardly ever link to Triablogue, because they are usually so obnoxious, but an interesting discussion is taking place on the problem of evil, and David Wood has shown up there. Here's what I just wrote (revised slightly):
David Wood said: I constantly hear atheists say, "But why didn't God give Hitler a heart attack before he started the Holocaust?" What does this claim presuppose? It presupposes that it would be morally permissible for God to kill someone for things he hadn't yet done. Now why would it not be morally permissible for God to allow babies to suffer for sins they hadn't yet committed?
In the first place, David continually seems to be responding to what "atheists say," as if they are the only ones asking these questions. That is NOT true. Christians ask the same type of questions, and he knows it. The difference is that when atheists ask these questions we don't think Christians can answer them satisfactorily, whereas when Christians ask these questions they are seeking to learn the answers. That's the only difference. So please, don't continue with this fortress mentality as if atheists are trying to breach the walls while Christians are all safely tucked inside.
But the bottom line is that these cases are non-analogous. The reason why God should've killed Hitler as a youth is because of the numbers of people he killed. The result of his death would have been good for millions of people. Most people do not cause such intense harms to humanity.
Besides, if God is all-powerful and omniscient, why did he let Hitler slip through his fingers when 40,000 people, mostly children, die every day of hunger? Does anyone really think that the millions of children who die from hunger deserve to die, but that Hitler didn't deserve to die in his youth? If God spared Hitler as a child but instead allows millions of children to die, then maybe these children were going to grow up to be more hideous monsters than Hitler! Such a supposition would be obviously false!
By the way, this, once again, is stating the obvious. How you repeatedly dispute the obvious is indeed bizarre to me. Bizarre. That's what you defend here. Bizarre beliefs. Why can't you admit it? Why are you so sure of your beliefs when they repeatedly dispute what is so obvious?
Maybe God exists, and maybe he doesn't. But where does your sense of certainty come from? That too is bizarre to me. Why not just say, "I think God exists." Why not admit he might not? Why is there this overwhelming attempt to show that Christianity is the only rational position to take? Do you do that with anything else, in any other area, when there are cases to be made for both sides?
What is so obvious to you that you must deny what is truly obvious, when it comes to the problem of suffering in this world?
Do you really believe that the nebulous arguments for the existence of a creator God, and that your particular historically conditioned interpretation of some ancient documents (which were continually edited until canonized) are so obvious to you, that you must deny what we would all expect if an Omni-God created this world? Sure, you are trying to come to grips with your God in light of the presence of evil, and so you struggle with additional premises and implausible theories. But you simply cannot deny that this is not the kind of world we would expect to find if such an omni-God exists.
Bizarre. If you don't want to deny the existence of God, surely you can accept a deistic kind of God or a process theology kind of God. What's the harm here? Isn't that what we do when investigating something? We revise our notions in light of some intractable problems! Is it because of fear that you don't? The fear of hell? Is that what you fear? It must be. That's all I can figure. For you are repeatedly denying the obvious.


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Success in our experiments could mean new therapeutic approaches to treat patients with type 1 diabetes.
Sioux Falls, SD (PRWEB) August 21, 2013
A grant from the Juvenile Research Diabetes Foundation(JDRF) will provide Sanford Research's Zhiguang Guo, MD, PhD, with nearly $500,000 to study a protein that may promote regeneration of cells in patients with juvenile (type 1) diabetes.
Guo's proposal, "Promoting human beta cell regeneration and survival by activating GPR119," will be funded for three years. Guo is a scientist with the Sanford Project, an emerging translational research center focused on targeted diabetes research, cures and care.
Using a mouse model, Guo and his team will determine if the GPR119 protein can promote the regeneration and prevent the death of beta cells when activated. Additionally, the GPR119 protein will be activated while the dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP-IV) enzyme, which degrades an insulin-producing hormone, is inhibited to determine if that combination also regenerates and preserves beta cells.
Individuals with type 1 diabetes lack adequate numbers of their beta cells, which are responsible for producing insulin and maintaining proper blood sugar levels.
"At the clinical onset of type 1 diabetes, patients still have a small percentage of beta cells remaining, so if we are able to increase the number of beta cells, diabetes could be reversed," said Guo. "Success in our experiments could mean new therapeutic approaches to treat patients with type 1 diabetes."
Guo's lab primarily focuses on methods to restore beta-cell numbers and function to treat type 1 diabetes.
About Sanford Research/USD
Sanford Research/USD is a non-profit research organization formed between Sanford Health and the University of South Dakota. Sanford Health is an integrated health system headquartered in Fargo, ND and Sioux Falls, SD and represents the largest, rural, not-for-profit healthcare system in the nation with a presence in 111 communities, eight states and two countries. In 2007, a transformational gift of $400 million by Denny Sanford provided for an expansion of children's and research initiatives, one of which was to find a cure for type 1 diabetes, and has given Sanford Research significant momentum in its goal of becoming one of the premiere research institutions in the United States and the world. Most recently, a subsequent gift of $100 million by Mr. Sanford has paved the way to establish Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Research.
With a team of more than 200 researchers, Sanford Research comprises several research centers, including Children's Health Research, Edith Sanford Breast Cancer, Cancer Biology, Center for Health Outcomes and Prevention, Sanford Applied Biosciences, and the National Institute for Athletic Health and Performance (NIAHP).


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Voting in the Dark: Open Government
Under Siege in Chicago Public Schools Elections for Local
School Council Members
June 1, 2012
When you enter the voting booth, how do you select who will receive your vote if you have no information about any of the candidates? Due to last-minute changes in Chicago Public Schools' (CPS) disclosure policy, members of the public were unable to obtain information as basic as the names of CPS's Local School Council candidates prior to the April 2012 elections. Local School Councils (LSC) are elected bodies that play a critical role in Chicago's public schools, including approving budgets and evaluating the school principals.
State law and CPS's own policies require transparency. The Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compels government bodies such as CPS to provide the public with requested information so they may "fulfill their duties of discussing public issues fully and freely, making informed political judgments and monitoring government to ensure that it is being conducted in the public interest." CPS' own election guide requires schools to provide candidate information to anyone who requests to review these materials prior to a LSC election. Yet, CPS, citing privacy concerns, made an eleventh hour change to their own well-established policy which denied access to individuals requesting to review the LSC candidate information in person at the schools.
CPS could have simply redacted the private information in the LSC materials (such as Social Security numbers) and made available the rest of the file for public review. The Center for Open Government, Welles Park Bulldog and others urged CPS to do so in order to safeguard any confidential information and provide open access to candidate information. Instead, starting in March 2012, CPS reversed its own policy, requiring anyone seeking information about LSC candidates to file a public records (FOIA) request with the central CPS office. Given the short period before the April election and the typically long response time by CPS for public records requests, this "solution" essentially prevented the public and media from obtaining important information about LSC candidates before the election.
CPS trampled on fundamental principles of democratic government by placing unnecessary barriers to the dissemination of LSC candidate information. Citizens were forced to go into the voting booth completely in the dark to select the individuals making policy decisions about their children's education. CPS must comply with its own policies and the FOIA law for future elections. CPS needs to assure the public that future LSC candidate information is readily available to anyone who wants it.
CPS needs to know that we want the lights back on in the voting booth.
Prepared by Matthew Kennedy (IIT Chicago-Kent College
of Law, J.D. candidate) and Natalie Brouwer Potts (Executive
Director, Center for Open Government, IIT Chicago-Kent College
of Law).
A2P Legal Externship is a 4-credit hour non-graded program
which enables you to extern with a supervising attorney
in a wide variety of legal areas – private or public, civil
or criminal. Externships are available for the Fall, Spring
and Summer semesters. Some public sector externships enable
you to obtain a 711 license and appear in court.
Why Extern?
To become a good lawyer and to supplement what you learn
in the classroom, you need practical experience in real-world
legal work. Most students aren't fortunate enough to receive
a paid clerking position — or even a volunteer opportunity
— that teaches what they want to learn. LEP presents a unique
and important opportunity to gain exposure to an area of
the law in which you are interested and helps you significantly
broaden your future employment opportunities.
Students interested in civil law may extern in a wide variety
of places. For example, some have externed at the City of
Chicago Corporation Counsel's Office, Office of the Illinois
Attorney General, Illinois Commerce Commission, Immigration
Court of the U.S. Department of Justice, Internal Revenue
Service, and Environmental Protection Agency, as well approved
in-house corporate legal counsel.
Students interested in criminal law have externed at the
US Attorney's Office, the Office of the Federal Defender,
and at the offices of the State's Attorney and Public Defender
in Cook County as well as the surrounding counties.
Application Process:
Information and application packets for Fall 2012 are available
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If you would like more information, please check the Externship
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The extern will be involved in legal research, fact investigations,
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Please submit via email a cover letter, resume, law school
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If you have any questions, contact Profess Gross at (email@example.com).
If you are selected, please notify Prof. Gross to register.
We are pleased to announce that Aaron Davis and Michael
Johnson have been selected as the 2012 recipients of The
Fleischman Family Award for Excellence in Criminal Clinic.
The prize includes a $1,250 cash award to be made to each
of them.
Brothers Jack and Sidney Z. Fleischman, both members of
the Class of 1987, established this prize to recognize outstanding
second or third year Chicago Kent students who have excelled
in the Criminal Section of the Chicago-Kent Law Offices
program. Specifically, the Award is to be made at the end
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of the Law Offices' Criminal Law Clinic, and dedication
to the Criminal Defense Litigation Program. In establishing
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Jack and Sidney are partners in their own criminal defense
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Dorothy Rae Randall Kiser, a devoted and loving wife, mother and grandmother, passed away on Mother's Day, May 10, 2009 in Sandy, UT.
Rae was born on March 9, 1931 in Monticello, UT to Wilford Anderson and Thressa Eldora Lewis Frost.
She was the fifth of six children. Her cousin, Lucy, also joined the family as an adopted daughter.
She attended elementary and high school in Monticello. She was the editor of the school newspaper and student body president her junior year. She graduated from Monticello High School in 1949 and then attend Brigham Young University from 1949 to 1950.
In 1950, she met Earl Larson Randall, whom she married in the Manti Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 18, 1950.
They had seven children: sons Vance and Kay, and daughters Lauana, Marlene, Holly, Joy, and Debbie.
She was an active member of the LDS Church her entire life. She served in a variety of callings in Primary, Young Women and Relief Society.
She and her husband, Earl, later served an LDS mission at the Independence Missouri Visitor's Center from 1995 to 1996. This mission as a couple was one the highlights of her life.
She will be best remembered for her zest for life, her resourcefulness, the nurturing care she provided her family, her devotion to the Savior, and working hard alongside of her sweetheart in the fruit orchards and vegetable gardens of the family farm in Montezuma canyon.
Her beloved husband, Earl, passed away on July 23, 2003. She later remarried H.B. Kiser in the Monticello LDS Temple on November 12, 2005. H. B. has also graced her life with joy and appreciation.
She is survived by her husband H.B. Kiser; children Vance (Kristine), Kay (Laura), Lauana (Jim), Marlene (Randy), Holly, Joy (Richard), Debra (Rick); brothers Wendell (Afton), Harold (Erline), and sister Erma; 35 grandchildren and 32 great-grand children.
She is preceded in death by her parents; two sisters who died at birth and her adopted sister, Lucy; her husband Earl; daughter-in-law Vickie H. Randall; and two grandsons, Curtis Vance Randall and Joshua Harris.
Her funeral was held on May 14, 2009 in the Monticello LDS Stake Center. Bishop Jack Brewer conducted the funeral service. Interment was in the Monticello City Cemetery.


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When she was 14, her father became chairman of the Republican National Committee.
When she was 15, her family moved across the country to live in Washington, where she met President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan.
When she got married in Ireland, the guests included members of the famed Irish rock band U2.
Leslie Fahrenkopf Foley has led a multi-faceted life with a rare insider's view as the daughter of a national political insider and as an attorney who has held high-level posts all the way to the White House. But now she is known to the general public mainly for her roles in television commercials touting her husband, Republican Tom Foley, who is running for...


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Serial Ganker (March 2010) - Facebook: A lesson in Competition
The Laws of Competition are going to require a successful social gaming company to compete by either:
This is what happens with market forces in a free market. Big markets with big profits attract lots of competition. Which, in turn, drives profits down because more people are chasing the same pool of dollars.
- creating lots of crappy games (most options)
- and/or, build better games to distinguish themselves (best option)
The point here is that while social gaming is attractive to investors right now, it's not always going to be this attractive as competition drives down profits.
Those are my words from March above, but enough self-congratulating for being so smart and let's steal some juicy quotes from the article with Jeff at Popcap.
"You're definitely in the stage right now in social games where there's a lot of bandwagon jumping, where everyone sees moneymoneymoney and suddenly all these new companies appear. It happened before in mobile, it happened before in casual – in the past it's tended to signal the beginning of the end."
Kapalka isn't suggesting that social games as a whole are going to die. Instead, he says it's the end of a "golden era," where the possibilities of the genre seemed limitless.
So thus far, the first half of my prediction is coming true. Increased competition is bleeding away the profit in social gaming. Zynga, the largest FB dev, has taken the approach of making LOTS of crappy games with the hopes that will increase their overall exposure to more users.
The next stage, I believe, is that we'll see "better" games on Facebook. That's already becoming true to some degree. Certainly games like Desktop Defender, Kingdoms of Camelot and even (gasp) Frontierville are much better designed games than Mafia Wars and Farmville.


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The Real Housewives love them some plastic surgery as much as I love a box of Sour Patch Kids and a dark room. Whether they're from New York, L.A., Atlanta, New Jersey, or Miami, there's always someone in the cast who just doesn't know when to say when. The fillers, the Botox, the breasts the size and density of butternut squash ... some of these women have gone under the knife and emerged for the worse.
Here's a look at the 7 Housewives with just terrible plastic surgery.
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The optics community was saddened to learn of the death of Dr. Yoginder Joshi, an OSA Fellow and Senior Research Professor of Physics at St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Joshi passed away on April 2, 2008. He was 70.
Dr. Joshi was born in the Punjab in India. After completing a master's degree at Punjab University and teaching in India for two years, he came to Canada in 1961. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1964. In 1965, after teaching at St. Dunstan's University (now the University of Prince Edward Island) for one year, Dr. Joshi joined the physics department at St. Francis Xavier University, where he remained throughout his career. He served as chair of the physics department from 1990-96 and established a world-renowned laboratory in atomic spectroscopy. Upon his retirement from the university in 2001, Dr. Joshi was appointed a Senior Research Professor. He continued his research and some teaching until his death.
During his career Dr. Joshi created a world-wide network of collaborators. He had active collaborations with physicists in the Netherlands, Russia, France, Italy, U.S.A., India, Egypt and Canada. His research was funded continuously by the National Research Council of Canada and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada throughout the 43 years he was at St. Francis Xavier. He published over 240 papers, including five in the past few months while recuperating from cancer treatment.
In 1993 Dr. Joshi was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, and in 1994 he was elected an Associate Member of the Institute of Atomic Spectroscopy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received the St. Francis Xavier University Research Award in 1996.
This obituary was prepared by Michael Steinitz, editor, Canadian Journal of Physic and Professor of Physics, St. Francis Xavier University.


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Guy Ritchie and Jacqui Ainsley
A baby and a marriage! Guy Ritchie proposed in October to model and his baby mama Jacqui Ainsley. She accepted, E! News confirmed. Ainsley and Ritchie, who met in April 2010, already share 1-year-old son, Rafael. MORE: Guy Ritchie engaged to pregnant girlfriend Jacqui Ainsley
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Mid last year i spent 3 months in Beijing on an Asialink Writer's Residency. One of the major outcomes was this essay about China's expectations of exponential growth and what it might mean for Australia. Nestled between the third and fourth ring roads in the unfashionable west of Beijing, the Golden Resources Shopping Mall is […]
Golden Resources: China and the expectations of exponential growth
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First off, I'm running a giveaway for a free copy of this pattern (through March 2nd) on my blog here: http://denversews.com/2015/02/24/jasper-sweater-review-a-giveaway/
This is the Jasper Sweater by Paprika Patterns, available for purchase here: https://www.paprikapatterns.com/shop/jasper-sweaterdress/
I made View A, the hooded version. It's also available in a dress length and/or with a cowl neck instead of the hood.
There were a lot of things I liked about this pattern:
- The princess seams are much more flattering than a traditional boxy sweatshirt.
- The welt pockets class it up a little bit.
- The hood shape is a little different and fun with the added buttons.
The sizing was spot-on. I used the size 7 for the bust and then graded out to the size 8 at the hip. (I'm pear shaped.) The only other alteration I made was to shorten the sleeves by 3 inches, but that's standard for me. Another thing to like about this pattern: the sizes 7-10 (41″ to 49″ bust) are graded for a C cup. (Sizes 1-6 are graded for the standard B cup.) I hate how Big 4 patterns are graded for a B cup in every size. Almost nobody my size wears a B cup!
The only thing I disliked about the pattern was the width of the sleeves at the wrist. It's really just a style preference, but I like my sweatshirts to have a cuff that's tight on the wrist so they don't feel drafty.


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Style # 213003
Lustrous silk georgette fabric, an effortlessly-chic button design and playful striped print make this bebe blouse a hot way to inject a new-season look into your wardrobe. Team with a pair of leggings and suede booties for a quick day look.
- 100% silk
- Center back to hem: 27" (69 cm)
- Sleeve length: 24" (61 cm)
- Dry clean
- Imported
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S


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I suggest that one always turn on both the QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS and ANSI_NULLS session settings. Not only do these settings provide ANSI-standard behavior, these must be turned on in order to use features like indexed views, indexes on computed columns and query notifications. It is tricky to ensure the settings are as desired, though, because the default session settings are different depending on the tools you use.
It is especially important to ensure the QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS and ANSI_NULLS session settings are correct with DDL scripts because both QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS and ANSI_NULL are "sticky". The settings in effect when a stored procedure, view, function or trigger are created are also used at execution time. The create time settings override run-time session settings.
QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS and ANSI_NULLS are on by default when you connect using modern client APIs like ODBC, SQLOLEDB, SQL Native Client and SqlClient. The SQL Server Management Studio and Query Analyzer tools keep those settings on unless you override the connection behavior under the tool connection options or run SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS ON or SET ANSI_NULLS ON commands in the query window.
The SQLCMD and OSQL command prompt utilities are different, tough. These tools explicitly turn off QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS after connecting, presumably to provide backwards compatibility. One must either specify the "-I" (upper-case "eye") command-line argument to turn on QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS or include a SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIERS ON command in all the SQL scripts run from those utilities. I personally like avoid SET commands in my DDL scripts so I make it a habit to specify the -I command line option.
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