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Journal of the South African Veterinary Association
On-line version ISSN 2224-9435
Print version ISSN 1019-9128
CILLIERS, I; WILLIAMS, J; CARSTENS, A and DUNCAN, N M. Three cases of osteoma and an osseous fibroma of the paranasal sinuses of horses in South Africa. J. S. Afr. Vet. Assoc. [online]. 2008, vol.79, n.4, pp.185-193. ISSN 2224-9435.
Four horses were presented to the Onderstepoort Veterinary Academic Hospital with histories of facial asymmetry, nasal discharge or obstruction of normal nasal passage airflow. Radiographic examination of the maxillary sinuses of 2 cases revealed well circumscribed, unilateral, mineralised masses; the other 2 cases showed less mineralisation. The masses were accessed for further investigation by surgically created frontonasal bone flaps or trephination of the maxillary sinuses. Diagnosis of osteoma was confirmed histopathologically in 3 of the cases and of ossifying fibroma in the 4th. Two horses were euthanased directly after surgical intervention due to poor prognosis. Osteomas are by nature expansile tumours andfollow the complex communication of the sinuses, and therefore are not all amenable to surgical removal. Osseous fibromas are large, solitary, expansile lesions that are rare in all species but reported most frequently in horses. They have an apparent predilection for the rostral mandible of the horse.
Keywords : computed tomography; frontonasal bone flap; histopathology; horse; maxillary sinus; osteoma; osseous fibroma; ossifying fibroma; radiography; trephination.


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As far as licensed products go, I suppose pop-up books are no stranger than recipe books. The Hearthstone Pop-Up Book is an introduction to Blizzard's popular life-consuming hobby aimed at children who have yet to be exposed to its version of elves and their weird eyebrows. Here's some product description:
"Take your place alongside the nine major heroes, engage in a stunning arena battle, and enjoy a charming story told with the game's signature wit and whimsy. Unfold each page to reveal a spectacular central pop accompanied by booklets of smaller pops. The Hearthstone Pop-Up Book is a marvel of creativity and paper engineering—and a must-have for Hearthstone fans everywhere."
So now I know professional people in the biz call each section of a pop-up book "a pop", and it's never a bad day when you learn something new.
The Hearthstone Pop-Up Book is being published by Insight Editions, and will be out in November.

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Singer and Songwriter, Gregory Abbott whose hit song "Shake You Down" is still heard on radio stations across the country after being a number one hit some 26 years ago, is back with a new CD called "DROP YOUR MASK". For all the Abbott fans out there who have grown to love his interpretation of a song he writes himself, will not be disappointed in his latest CD.
If you are one of those critics who like to pick up a CD to see if the singer still has their "chops" after being in the business for many years, I challenge you to find where Gregory Abbott has lost anything when he hits the high notes with "DROP YOUR MASK."
To purchase Gregory's CD, click HERE.
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Yesterday's matchup featured a food writer vs. a tennis player, two professions that are not known for public speaking. The best arguments came in the very first two comments. Jeff wrote:
Fisher's first book was "Serve It Forth," which seems like good advice in tennis, as well. So, you'd get a two-fer there.
That was fine, but not as good as Jonathan's endorsement of Williams:
Serena would be great at an academic seminar. Just like academics, she has a contempt for referees, even while purporting to regard them as valuable. Just don't let the Chair interrupt her!
Which was echoed by Diana:
I was going to root for Fisher (whom I have never read) because her victory would make Auden happy. But then I thought about it some more and realized how incapable anyone is of *making* Auden happy—or unhappy, for that matter. In "The More Loving One," he writes:
Were all stars to disappear or die,
I should learn to look at an empty sky
And feel its total dark sublime,
Though this might take me a little time.
So with that motive gone or suspended, I vote for Williams. She's likely to win a few matches before the end, and that'll be fun. At the seminar itself, she might even treat us to a serve or two (not to mention a referee chew-out, as Jonathan noted). What could go wrong?
Most of that bit was irrelevant, but I'm a sucker for Auden so I liked it anyway.
Today the competition is a bit more serious. Steve Martin is seeded #4 in the Magicians category even though magic is not one of his main talents; and David Letterman, though unseeded in the TV personalities category, knows how to handle an audience. You can take it from there.
Again, the full bracket is here, and here are the rules:
We're trying to pick the ultimate seminar speaker. I'm not asking for the most popular speaker, or the most relevant, or the best speaker, or the deepest, or even the coolest, but rather some combination of the above.
I'll decide each day's winner not based on a popular vote but based on the strength and amusingness of the arguments given by advocates on both sides. So give it your best!


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She started playing football at the age of six in private football academy JSSL – with the boys.
She is also the only girl playing in the all-boys league and has scored four goals in six matches in the U-14 JSSL League.
And now, according to a report in the New Paper, Danelle Tan is hoping to get an opportunity to impress coaches in the United States as she heads to Boston.
In an earlier interview with Goal.com, she had said: "I am hoping to get a scholarship to America and get into a good school there because the future for aspiring female footballers there are better.
"Additionally it can provide me with the environment to succeed as a footballer too."
That opportunity has arrived as the Number 9 will head to Boston on 5 June for the New England Top 100 College Showcase.
The showcase will give her a chance to show off her skills and potentially snag a scholarship from one of the schools in the United States.
She has also trained with the Arsenal girls' youth team in 2018 as part of a JSSL initiative.
She had said after her return that while at Arsenal, she "learned to think much quicker and this means starting to think even before I get the ball."
The 14-year-old has also scored on her debut for Still Aerion FC in the Football Association of Singapore's (FAS) Women's National League and her goal debut at 14 years, six months and 26 days, installed her as the second-youngest goalscorer in the competition's history.
Nur Atikah Ardini Salleh is the youngest girl to score in the tournament when she scored while at 14 years, five months and nine days old.
Danelle also finished as joint-top scorer in the UEFA-FAS U-15 Girls' Tournament in March, alongside Moldova's Colnic Iuliana. Both had five goals to their names.


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A track that lives up to its bold name, "Anthem" by Canadian DJ Dzeko and US duo Riggi & Piros is out now on Tiësto's label, Musical Freedom and does not disappoint.An electrifying collaboration by two distinct acts on the scene, 'Anthem" sets itself apart as a fiery fusion of intricate production and flawless hooks. It's a clear meeting of minds and talents, with the emphatic passion that Dzeko is renowned for, together with the masterful take on progressive house that Riggi & Piros own.
Riggi & Piros also have a long history with Tiësto, having released Knightlife on Musical Freedom in 2015, which lead to the pair's successful remixes of Clockwork, The Chainsmokers, KSHMR and Borgore. Their biggest track Keep Rockin' reached number 2 on the Beatport Progressive House chart and has positioned the duo as key players in North America's burgeoning EDM scene. These acts are already making significant waves, so of course their collaboration was always going to be an Anthem.
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While your washing machine keeps clothes looking and smelling their best, the appliance can develop some strong odors over time. Between the grungy clothes that you send through it to the detergents and fabric softeners that you use, those odors can make you hate entering your laundry room. Luckily for you, you can learn a how to clean washing machines and get yours clean again.
Safety first, though: Always put down some towels or old clothing near the base of the washing machine and around it. Not only will this keep the water from damaging your floors, but it will also prevent slips and falls.
Why Does My Washer Smell?
Your washing machine may develop odors because of the cleaning products that you use as well as the fibers that come off your clothing and bed linens. Dirt and hair can add to those odors as can the oils that come off your body and stick to your clothing. Odors also stick to the washer because germs and bacteria grow in moist environments. Regular cleaning will eliminate those musty odors and other smells.
What Is the Best Way to Clean a Washing Machine?
Learning how to drain a washer is your first step because you need to remove the excess water. If your washer dies in the middle of a load, this is the first step that you'll take. No matter what type of washer you have, always turn it off first and unplug it from the wall. You can also use duct or electrical tape to secure the cord to the appliance and keep it out of the water.
You will then want to pull the washer away from the wall and locate the three hoses on the back. Two supply the machine with hot and cold water. The third hose is the drain hose that takes water away from the machine. Turn off the water supply to the washer and place a large bucket on the ground. Pull and twist the drain hose until it comes loose, and place it inside the bucket. As soon as the drain hose is free, water will start rushing out. You may need to drain the bucket several times to remove all of the water from the washer.
This is a good time to check the drainpipe and hose for clogs, too. Clogs can form in a washing machine drain hose because of loose fibers from your clothing and items left inside pockets. You can generally knock the hose against a hard surface to dislodge clogs.
How to Clean Your Front-Loading Washing Machine
There are a few methods on how to clean washer machines that you can try if you own an older or a traditional appliance. Start with an empty washer and run a hot cycle with a washing machine cleaner. You can then use ordinary detergent mixed with warm water to clean the inside. Use a scrub brush on both the door and inside the drum. Once you run another hot water cycle, you should notice that the bad odors have disappeared.
Many people hear about cleaning washing machine with vinegar tips and wonder if this liquid will clean their appliances. Vinegar is a simple product that is available in grocery and home improvement stores. It works on all types of washing machines and will not damage the drain line or pump filter. Some even say that vinegar is the best way to clean washing machine drains and other parts.
With a standard or traditional washing machine, fill the drum with hot water and add up to 2 cups of distilled white vinegar or apple cider vinegar. Both types work equally well. Vinegar is a natural deodorizer that removes stubborn odors, but it also kills any bacteria growing in your washing machine. You can mix one-quarter of a cup of the vinegar with a quart of warm or hot water and use the mixture to clean the outside of the washer, too.
How to Clean Your Top-Loading Washing Machine
Learning how to clean top-loading washing machines is important because these appliances are finicky and prone to certain types of damage. You can use hot water and let the machine run through a cycle. It's helpful to pause the front loader for a few minutes in the middle of the cycle, which gives the water time to work.
You may want to clean both the door and the inside of the washing machine, too. A microfiber cloth is gentle enough that it won't damage or scratch the surface. Try dipping this cloth in warm or hot water before rubbing it against the dials and knobs. A small sprinkle of baking soda can remove stuck-on grime, especially if you rub the baking soda into those surfaces with a damp cloth. Let it dry for several hours or overnight before removing it.
If you searched for answers to "how to clean my washing machine" because you have a front loader and want to know if you can use vinegar, don't worry. Vinegar is just as safe to use on front-loading washing machines as it is on top-loading models. Add up to 2 cups of vinegar to the machine and set it to a standard cycle. Pause the machine and give the vinegar at least two minutes to work before finishing the cycle.
You can use vinegar on the outside and the knobs and dials, too. Place equal parts vinegar and warm water in a spray bottle and lightly mist the outside of the washer. Use a microfiber cloth to rub the solution around. It will kill germs and bacteria on the washer and remove foul odors at the same time.
Vinegar has a harsh and slightly acidic odor that you might not like. If you find that it clings to your washer, you can wipe down the surface with plain water and a soft towel. Running the washer one or more times with only water in it can eliminate the vinegar smell that clings to the inside.
Cleaning your washing machine takes a bit of effort, but it's worth it. It's also worth it to be ready for washer and other appliance breakdowns with a plan from Services Lines Warranties from America. See what plans are available in your area.


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"In his amazing gossamer piano solos, he sprinkles stardust on whatever song he plays; you hold your breath in wonder."~ STEPHEN HOLDEN, THE NEW YORK TIMESLarry Fuller is an internationally acclaimed jazz pianist, band leader, and clinician who is known by critics and fans to "swing like a beast!".Early in his career, Fuller's undeniable talent earned him the position of musical director and pianist for GRAMMY-nominated vocalist Ernestine Anderson, pianist for renowned drummer Jeff Hamilton's Trio, and final pianist in legendary bassist Ray Brown's Trio. Fuller also toured with guitar-vocal giant John Pizzarelli.Since 2013 - harnessing his extraordinary experience - Fuller has led the Larry Fuller Trio. He presents a musical program rarely experienced live today, consistently praised for his emotive, swinging style, monster technique, and program versatility. From bop, to stride, to swing, to blues - Fuller's show at Birdland is one you will not want to miss!Larry Fuller has appeared at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops, Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops, Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Center, Bern International Jazz Festival, TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival, Shanghai Center Theater, Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) Theater, Dimitriou's Jazz Alley, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Birdland NYC, Blue Note (Milan, Tokyo & NYC), A-Train (Berlin), Tbilisi Event Hall, Auditorio Ibirapuera with Arte Viva Symphony Orchestra Brazil, and many more.Larry Fuller Trio:Larry Fuller, pianoGeorge DeLancey, bassPete Van Nostrand, drums


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John L. Swan, MD graduated cum laude in molecular biology from Vanderbilt University and received his Medical Degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1985. He completed his internship at the Carraway Methodist Medical Center in Birmingham, and his residency in ophthalmology at the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans. In addition, he completed a fellowship in Cornea and External Disease at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Schools Affiliated Hospitals in Dallas. Board-certified in ophthalmology, he served on the faculty at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center before joining Montgomery Eye Physicians in 1991. Dr. Swan has over 20 years of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery experience, including DSAEK, corneal transplantation, no-stitch cataract surgery, radial and astigmatic keratotomy, ASA, refractive lensectomy and LASIK using Advanced CustomVue technology. As one of the most experienced laser surgeons in the country, Dr. Swan has performed refractive surgery on members of his own family, office staff and physician colleagues, and twice has been named one of the Top 100 LASIK Surgeons in the U.S. among a network of over 1,000 physicians.
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If you've ever added a teen driver to your insurance policy, you know how much it costs! While there's no way to avoid an increased auto insurance premium, there are some steps that you can take to help save you money each month. Keep these tips in mind to help keep the cost of your auto insurance low when adding your teen driver to your policy!
- Work with an independent agent. The best way to save on your auto insurance premiums is to work with an independent agent, so that they're able to compare policies from different insurance providers.
- Look for discounts. Your independent insurance agent will be able to let you know about any discounts you qualify for, including a low-mileage driver or good student discount, which is for teens that have at least a "B" average in school.
- Choose the right car. If your teen has a separate vehicle, make sure that it's as safe as possible. Choose a car that has a high safety rating and the latest equipment.
- Stress the importance of safe driving. Before allowing your child to drive on their own, make sure they know the consequences of dangerous driving.
- Increase your deductibles. To decrease monthly premiums, raise your deductibles. However, keep in mind that the higher your deductible, the more you will have to pay out-of-pocket if you're ever involved in an accident.
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MADRID — Serena Williams overpowered Victoria Azarenka 6-1, 6-3 Sunday, winning the Madrid Open and leaving her top-ranked opponent so exasperated she smashed her racket to the ground. In a match between two of the tour's heaviest hitters, Williams battered Azarenka on the new blue clay court with big serves and fierce returns.
The 13-time Grand Slam winner captured the first four games and had no trouble the rest of the way."I can still do better," said Williams who took a yearlong absence because of illness in 2011. "This is really good.
I have been working hard. I had some tough battles and really unfortunate circumstances so I really love this. "Williams served 14 aces on her way to avenging her only loss in six previous meetings with Azarenka. She was beaten by the Belarus star in the 2009 final in Miami. Williams won the 41st title of her career and second this season.
She is unbeaten in her last 13 matches on clay. Azarenka had won her four previous tournaments. Williams broke in Azarenka's first service game when the Australian Open winner could only stab her stinging returns into the stands. William's strong start left Azarenka shaken, and she committed three double-faults to cede her serve again and trail 3-0. The flustered Azarenka netted a forehand after Williams had fallen on the slick surface and left the entire court open. She then produced another double-fault to conclude a dreadful first set. Williams kept the momentum going, hitting her fifth and sixth aces to hold for love at the start of the second set. As her frustration boiled over, Azarenka smashed her racket to the ground moments before Williams blasted a return by her to break her yet again. Williams sealed the victory in 64 minutes with her final ace."I want to congratulate Serena for a great week," Azarenka said. "She did a great job.


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Congratulations to Nichole Penick and Anne Arundel County for receiving prestigious industry recognition from the Baltimore Chapter of CMAA. The Hancock Resolution Visitor Center was selected for a 2021 Excellence in Construction Management Award.
Congratulations to Carl Reimer and Anne Arundel County for receiving prestigious industry recognition from the Baltimore Chapter of CMAA. The Central Holding and Processing Project was selected for a 2021 Excellence in Construction Management Award.
Congratulations to Scheryl Lloyd and Anne Arundel County for receiving prestigious industry recognition from the Baltimore Chapter of CMAA. The Broadneck Peninsula Trail Phase II Project was selected for a 2021 Excellence in Construction Management Award.
DFI Receives CMAA Baltimore Chapter Awards
The Construction Management of America (CMAA) Baltimore Chapter presented Development Facilitators, Inc. (DFI) with two Construction Management Excellence Awards for their work on the capital projects Cpl. Charles Butch Troyer Training Center and Brooklyn Park Senior Activity Center, both located in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. For more information about the awards, please visit https://www.aacounty.org/news-and-events/news/2021/01/28/anne-arundel-county-capital-projects-recognized-for-excellence-in-construction-management#.YBQXuk8mcIQ.linkedin.
Brooklyn Park Senior Activity Center Grand Re-Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony!
Development Facilitators, Inc. (DFI) was excited to have attended the grand re-opening and ribbon cutting ceremony for the Brooklyn Park Senior Activity Center in November 2019. The re-opening follows the completion of renovations and expansion to the existing center.
DFI provided the Construction Management and Inspection (CM&I) services for the project.
See below for a slideshow of the event!
In 2019, Development Facilitators, Inc. (DFI) welcomed Chris Wissmann, DFI's summer intern!
Wissmann interned in DFI's Construction Management and Inspection (CM&I) Department to further his knowledge of the field and gain firsthand experience. He shadowed Carl Reimer, DFI's General Manager of Construction Management, and helped with administrative tasks within the department, as well as other assignments given to him.
See below for his reflection on his time with DFI!
09/18/19 - Dan Chavis, President of Development Facilitators, Inc. (DFI), and Scheryl Lloyd, a Construction Manager for DFI, have achieved the Certified Construction Manager (CCM) designation issued by the Construction Manager Certification Institute (CMCI). CMCI administers the CCM® program, which is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) under the International Standards Organizations (ISO) 17024 Standard.
DFI was awarded the 2013 Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) Project Achievement Award for the Marley Fire Station project in Anne Arundel County.
DFI also won the 2015 Maryland Sustainable Growth Award for the Hagerstown Main Branch Library project.
We are very happy to have taken part in the Engineer Career Fair at Michael's Eighth Avenue in Glen Burnie. Created by DFI Founder Ray Streib, about 400 students from county high schools attended the career fair where they learned about civil engineering. Please take a moment to watch and read the article about this event in the Capital Gazette: Engineer Career Fair 2016
Special thanks to Dave Wissmann, Steve Prophet, Chelsea Young, Sue Steinhice, Steve Andraka, and Bob Thommen for their help in organizing the event and manning some of the stations.
DFI was gratified to accept the 2016 Gold Leaf Award presented to Prince George's County, MD.
"The Harry J. Banker Gold Leaf Award provides an opportunity for ISA chapters to recognize individuals at the local or regional level. The award is intended for individuals, organizations and communities for either outstanding Arbor Day activities or for outstanding landscape beautification activities as submitted by an ISA Chapter. This is an opportunity for ISA chapters to solicit entries to acknowledge worthy individuals, organizations or municipalities for projects which have had a significant impact upon a community or region, usually over a period of several years." –ISA website
DFI has responsibility for inspection and oversight of the "Right Tree-Right Place" program with Prince George's County DPW and DOE coordination through the Neighborhood Design Center. Our staff continues to work cooperatively in order to identify areas where nuisance trees may cause damage or injury.
Leading the effort with Prince George's County, Wayne Lucas (Landscape Architect, ISA Certified Arborist, MD Roadside Tree Care Expert, Special Services Division) is Mike Burton who is a Certified Arborist/Tree Expert. He is responsible for countywide survey for identification of hazardous trees (weak wood), compiling a computer data base of surveyed areas and locations of hazardous trees, design for locations, botanical and common names of replacement trees, and oversight and inspection of tree removal/replacement. Mr. Burton is also responsible for managing and monitoring the coordination of tree installation crews and completing daily reports. Work is completed in each of the 5 Council Districts each year.
Mr. Burton works cooperatively to recommend suitable replacement plantings and landscaping.
DFI gladly participated in the Louisiana Flood Victims Donation this past week. We thank Wallace Montgomery for allowing us to be part of the donation. The DFI office donated many items that will provide aid and relief to the situation in Louisiana. Our thoughts and prayers remain with the flood victims. August 2016
DFI supported the Maryland Quality Initiative (MdQI) with their Construction & Engineering Career Day Event at the Anne Arundel County Fairgrounds. April 13, 2016
This event is for middle & high school students to introduce them to the different types of careers in construction and engineering. We had groups of approximately 5 - 8 kids rotating through the indoor workstations where they are given an overview, hands on demonstrations (if possible), handouts, etc… of what the firms do, and how their job fits into supporting the roadway system. The kids may ask questions about special skills, education, salaries, the job itself, etc.
Wearing orange in support of National Work Zone Awareness Week, 2016
Construction Management as It Applies to the LEED Scorecard
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Carl Reimer, Construction Manager & Inspection Supervisor
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Read the Millhouse Creek article featured in capitalgazette.com—Townhouse construction in Anne Arundel
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STANFORD, Calif. — John Dunning, a 32-year veteran of the women's volleyball coaching ranks and five-time national champion head coach, announced his retirement Monday.
"I am a very lucky person. I have had the joy of coaching in a sport I love for decades, but have decided that it is time to retire," said Dunning, who in December led Stanford to its record-tying seventh NCAA title with a 3-1 victory over Texas. "I have had the wonderful opportunity to coach so many great student-athletes, and work with amazing people in amazing programs at great universities. I am grateful for all the support I have received and hope in the coming weeks to be able to reach out and thank people for all that they have done for me."Dunning directed Stanford to three national championships (2001, 2004, 2016) and eight conference titles during his 16-year tenure on The Farm. He boasts five national titles overall (1985 and 1986 at Pacific) — which ranks as the second-most in NCAA Division I history — and was inducted into the American Volleyball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2011.
In 32 seasons as a head coach, Dunning's teams never missed the postseason. He led 12 teams to the Final Four, including eight of his 16 Stanford squads. Dunning joins current Penn State head coach Russ Rose as the only coaches in the history of the sport to guide 10 teams to the national championship match. Dunning finishes his career with an 888-185 overall record (.828).
"I want to thank Coach Dunning for all he has done to keep our women's volleyball program among the nation's elite during his 16 seasons at Stanford," said Jaquish & Kenninger Director of Athletics Bernard Muir. "John is regarded as one of the best in his field by his peers, and he will be truly missed as a leader within our Stanford athletic community. On and off the court, John's tireless dedication and passion for mentoring our student-athletes have proved instrumental in sustaining the success of our program. I want to wish him and his family well in retirement."
"I am a very lucky person." » @StanfordWVB's John Dunning#GoStanford pic.twitter.com/0b528kOwlR— Stanford Athletics (@GoStanford) January 10, 2017
Dunning is a four-time national coach of the year, three-time regional coach of the year and seven-time conference coach of the year. He holds a 91-27 mark in NCAA tournament play, winning 77.1 percent of his postseason matches. Throughout his illustrious career, Dunning has coached 38 All-Americans to 77 total honors and produced seven national players of the year.
What a legendary career. Thank you for everything, Coach Dunning » https://t.co/Tmqb57q1I6— Stanford Volleyball (@StanfordWVB) January 10, 2017
Dunning holds a 451-83 mark at Stanford, the most wins in program history. While on The Farm, he also mentored three Olympians in Logan Tom (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012), Ogonna Nnamani (2004, 2008) and Foluke Akinradewo (2012, 2016), and has produced numerous U.S. National Team selections.
Prior to coming to Stanford, Dunning spent 16 seasons as the head coach at Pacific. During his tenure in Stockton, he compiled an impressive 437-102 (.811) record, was named Big West Coach of the Year four times and led the Tigers to two NCAA championships, an NCAA runner-up finish, five Big West Conference titles and 16 consecutive NCAA tournament bids. In 2007, Dunning was inducted into the University of the Pacific Hall of Fame.
Dunning first stepped onto the Pacific campus in 1985 and guided the team to a national title in his first year as a collegiate head coach. In 1986, he helped the Tigers repeat their landmark feat. Dunning's pair of titles with the volleyball program remain the only two national championships in any sport in Pacific's history. After capturing an NCAA title with Stanford in his first season (2001), Dunning remains the only coach in the history of the sport to win a national championship in his first year at two different schools.
Stanford will immediately begin a national search for his replacement.


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You normally would think hearing loss would be obvious to spot, but it's not as straightforward to recognize as you might believe.
To begin with, many people with hearing loss have difficulties only with specific sounds and in distinct situations. And so, if you can hear normally on some occasions, you'll have the tendency to pin the blame on other factors or other people for the times you do have a hard time hearing.
Second, hearing loss arises slowly over time, so it's challenging to notice the slow progression. It's more convenient to blame others for mumbling, or to turn up the TV volume a little higher, than to acknowledge that you might have hearing loss.
So, the signs can be elusive. You have to understand what to watch for, and although it's easy to disavow that you have hearing loss, you should be truthful with yourself about the warning signs.
Here are the top 10 to watch out for. If you detect the presence of any, it may be time to organize a hearing exam.
- You experience ringing in the ears – this may be indicative of permanent hearing damage. Hearing aids can not only assist you to hear better, but they may also be able to relieve the ringing in your ears.
- You can't hear normal household sounds – hearing loss can make it difficult to hear the doorbell, the phone ringing, or somebody calling your name from another room.
- You have difficulty understanding TV dialogue – speech is ordinarily more difficult to hear than other sorts of sound. This frequently shows itself as difficulty following movie or TV show plots.
- You have your cellphone, TV, or radio at max volume – if you can hear the TV, phone, or radio much better than you can hear personal conversations, check the volume settings on your devices. You may have these gadgets set at elevated volumes while concurrently thinking that everyone else speaks too quietly.
- You ask people to repeat themselves regularly – you detect that you say "what?" a lot, or that you need to ask people to repeat themselves when you're not facing them.
- You commonly misinterpret what people are saying – consonants are higher-pitched, and thus more difficult to hear, than vowels. Considering that consonants transmit the majority of the meaning in a sentence, speech comprehension suffers.
- You have trouble hearing all the words in a discussion – certain sounds and letters are more difficult to hear than others. Consequently, you can hear the majority of the words in a sentence, but that you have to often times try to fill in the blanks.
- You have trouble hearing when your back is to the speaker – you may be dependent on lip reading, body language, and other cues to meaning much more than you realize. When you're not facing the speaker, and can't use these hints, you may have difficulty comprehending speech.
- You have a hard time hearing with a great deal of background noise – as hearing loss becomes worse, contending noise becomes more of a challenge. You might have the ability to hear speech in tranquil surroundings, but it becomes more and more difficult to follow discussions in a boisterous environment like a restaurant.
- People complain that you shout or have the TV volume too loud – people may comment that you have the TV volume too loud or that you have the predisposition to yell. It doesn't feel this way to you because you're compensating for your hearing loss.
Do you have one or more of the top 10 warning signs of hearing loss? If so, schedule your hearing test today, and take the steps to start living a better, more productive, and healthier life.


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Volcano in the Valley: Mole Hill's active history
Nestled in the rolling landscape of the central Shenandoah Valley, Mole Hill is a familiar site for people in Rockingham County.
But the privately-owned landmark, situated about two-and-a-half miles west of Harrisonburg, has a unique distinction. The hill used to be an active volcano.
A sharp incline along the surface indicates where the limestone rock commonly found in the Valley ends and volcanic rock, known as basalt, begins.
"These rocks here, are so much younger, have a completely different history," said Dr. Eric Pyle, a Geoscience Education Professor at James Madison University. "It was molten material that basically found a pathway up to the surface, created a volcano, and has since eroded away as the Valley floor has eroded away."
While the surrounding rock dates back 450 million years, the rock found on Mole Hill is just 48 million years old.
Nearly 50 million years may seem long, but it's a relatively recent period in geological history.
Mole Hill formed from magma pushing up to the surface through cracks in the lithosphere. The landmark we see today is made of remnants of the cooled magma column, eroding at a slower place than the sedimentary rock around it.
"Anything that is made of tougher rock than the sedimentary rock in the Valley is not going to weather as fast and so it stands proud," said Pyle.
The rocks have a hexagonal shape, which is indicative of the magma cooling from the outside in.
But Mole Hill is not the only place in our area with these types of formations. Igneous rocks are dotted in various locations across Rockingham, Highland, Pendleton and Augusta counties — the only region on the East Coast where these types of formations are found.
"There are these little anomalies that pop up. Things that don't quite fit the rule," said Pyle.
About a decade ago, the site caught the attention of Dr. Liz Johnson, an Associate Professor of Geochemistry. Since then, she and student researchers have climbed Mole Hill's rocky surface to unearth the mystery buried beneath the surface, thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation's
Before Johnson arrived, the last time a research study was conducted at Mole Hill was 1993 — leaving a lot of questions unanswered.
"Not just what is it, — is it really volcanic — but why is it here? And how did it get here," said Pyle.
Elizabeth McTaggart, a rising senior at JMU, is among the undergraduates researching Mole Hill. She's studying crystals found in the rocks, pushed up to the surface from the mantle of the volcano.
"We can't really dig that deep. The mantle is really deep inside the earth," said McTaggart. "So we can't just go and dig a hole and find out what the mantle is made of."
But are we at risk for an eruption today?
The answer is — no, because the volcano is now extinct.
But the site will still keep geologists coming back for years and years to come.
"It is cutting edge. It's thing that we don't know the answers to. It's not like a high school chemistry lab where the instructor knows what the answer is supposed to be," said Pyle.


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Archive:Uncyclopedia/Forum:Things don't add up
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The following, from what I have available, are facts (please correct me if I'm wrong):
- Wikia was in contact with User:Chronarion, owner of the uncyclopedia.org domain, for a minimum of three months.
- Within this time, Wikia negotiated with Chronarion for transfer of the domain ownership.
- Wikia has managed the domain name servers for uncyclopedia.org since uncyclopedia was transferred to Wikia hosting.
- Chronarion has always acted in the best interest of the uncyclopedia community and would have supported subdomains for additional languages to ensure the continuity of the project and community.
- From a technical standpoint, as long as the domain name servers on the domain record for uncyclopedia.org were pointed to Wikia's domain name servers, Wikia was the only entity that could add subdomains to uncyclopedia.org.
- Wikia refused to create subdomains which were requested by the community for the uncyclopedia.org domain, despite regular contact with Chronarion, the domain owner.
- Wikia cited "legal issues", which do not add up with 1, 2, 3, and 4 above; these have not yet been explained.
I do not understand this. (unsigned)
- Wikia was in contact with User:Chronarion since we started hosting this site. We discussed domain ownership from then onwards.
- I don't know if we've managed the domain name servers for uncyclopedia.org since uncyclopedia was transferred to Wikia hosting. We don't for Memory Alpha which has recently led to DNS issues since they were still pointing to some other name servers (possibly Wikimedia's), not Wikia's.
- It wasn't up to Chronarion to add subdomains for additional languages. Wikia weren't prepared to take the risk of hosting new sites on a domain we don't own. For a long time, Uncyclopedia was at the address mrpalmguru.com/uncyclopedia which is now a domain squatter site. We didn't want to take the same risk of losing Uncyclopedia.org.
- I think it's correct that Wikia was the only entity that could add subdomains to uncyclopedia.org. I don't know for sure.
- I don't remember Wikia refusing to create subdomains. Where is this suggestion from? Which ones were refused?
- Wikia did not cite "legal issues" for this. The reasons were, as I explained above, about avoiding the risk of losing the domain name.
- As far as I know, "Mr. Palm Guru" was a rather short-lived experiment; during the time I'd been part of this project (May'05-Jul'06) the wiki was at uncyclopedia.org - originally as an independent site. Stillwaters, Chronarion et al didn't start posting their patented nonsense™ until Jan'05, so odds are that the "palm guru" name was something they'd scrapped in the first few months at the latest. Odd that MSN's search still returns it among the results for "uncyclopedia" (it's the only major engine AFAIK which does).
- The domain name servers have been at wikia.com and the entire site content duplicated between uncyclopedia.org / uncyclopedia.wikia.com for as long as this had been Wikia-hosted. All possible *.uncyclopedia.org domain addresses still resolve to the same IP (rr-ext-squid.svc.wikia-inc.com: 184.108.40.206) as all of the other wikicities/wikia projects. Certainly, only Wikia's web server would technically be the only to be in the position to split any requests for es.uncyclopedia.org, en.uncyclopedia.org, xx.uncyclopedia.org and the like and determine which database to use for each if they're all resolving to the same IP and wikia operates the domain servers. --Carlb 17:16, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
I would like to hear more from the parties involved
- http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/c/c5/Dawg.gif » Brig Sir Dawg | t | v | c » 10:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Keitei, who doesn't want a fuss, just a kind explanation 10:38, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Carlb 14:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- ~Sir Rangeley GUN WotM UotM EGA +S (talk) 14:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- The Rt. Hon. BarryC MUN (Symposium!) Sigh. Double Sigh. 14:50, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- --User:Zombiebaron/sig 16:11, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- t o m p k i n s blah. ﺞوﻦ וףה ՃՄ ண்ஸ ފއހ วอฏม +տ trade websites 06:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
What would like to hear? Are there questions other than the ones at the top of this page that are answered? Angela
I don't see the problem
Could anyone explain this to me in layman's terms? -- User:Col.swordman/sig 18:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- The reason given for the domain problem isn't adding up with what we know of what happened. We just want to clear up the inconsistency/contradictions/whatever. --Keitei 19:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- What I don't understand is point #4 - you see, I am not a big geek in this. -- User:Col.swordman/sig 19:31, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Forum:Announcement:_Wikia_&_Uncyclopedia#Blame_me_a_bit claimed that "more domains for us" was somehow Wikia's justification for taking control and ownership of uncyclopedia.org - whoever controls uncyclopedia.org could (in theory) use it to create http://de.uncyclopedia.org http://es.uncyclopedia.org and the like. Likely not the real reason for their having done this with no prior consultation - if all they wanted was to create a bunch of languages as subdomains of the same site, they could've registed any ol' name and started putting individual-language projects under it. For instance, some of the external projects are using .pedia.ws as a rather "generic" base name to build http://hiki.pedia.ws http://desciclo.pedia.ws and the like. A previous "experiment" used an external site full of redirects to redirect variants of xx.uncyclopedia.info for each language xx to the scattered individual wikis. None of this was done by Wikia, although there are a few xx.uncyclopedia.wikia.com domains (China, Germany, Denmark and a fork of Finland's hikipedia) which use a similar pattern.
From Forum:.de_displaced,_.fi_finished?:
- Is the xx.uncyclopedia.wikia.com working for all foreign uncys?--Rataube 15:17, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
- No, because most of them have their own names (anegkyklopaideia, inciclopedia, desencyclopedie and so on). We can set unique names up for de. and fi. as well if that's what they want of course. It might be a good idea to set up some redirects though, to help in finding different versions. -- sannse 15:39, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
The idea also was mentioned briefly in Forum:Uncyclomedia.org?#whatever.uncyclopedia.org.3F. It never was a priority for Wikia until suddenly needed as an excuse for the shenanigans with uncyclopedia.org's ownership. --Carlb 19:54, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Perhaps they should be more communicative but I'm sure everything's fine. I think you're all being a bit over-suspicious, but maybe I'm just too trusting. Of course, my opinion doesn't matter since I'm not an admin.—User:Mandaliet/sig 08:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Comment: What does admin status have to do with anything? It's just the ability to delete hundreds of unfunny one-line substubs on site (instead of QVFD'ing them) and to block evil vadnals. A thankless task, perhaps. The Uncyclopedia, however, belongs to the individual authors who wrote the darned thing in the first place. All any individual website hosting Uncyclopedia content has is a non-exclusive license to use this text for non-commercial purposes, subject to the conditions set forth in the Creative Commons deed. That's it.
- The domain name is an important tool used by various stakeholders in the Internet community to find the site. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyone has the right to start one or one brazillion sites with an infinite number of monkeys reposting an infinite number of copies of the Uncyclopedia content, provided that the original CC-BY-NC-SA terms are respected and complied with. That much isn't in any way Wikia's decision (or even something they would've wanted). It dates right back to the very early days of Uncyclopedia as an independent project and website... the text belongs to the authors, always has.
- If ownership of the uncyclopedia.org domain name has been lost, we need to do whatever we have to do to ensure that all affected can find us (and find all domains that have anything to do with any of the Uncyclopedian projects) regardless of what happens to uncyclopedia.org. That much has little or nothing to do with the 'admin' flag, which is used to delete useless substubs from this site. We all (as authors of some piece of this project) have a stake in this, so by all means don't be afraid to speak up. Please. --Carlb 16:32, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- I was kidding about the admin thing, because it seems that the only people talking about this are admins.—User:Mandaliet/sig 06:58, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Who cares?
- I'm not breaking with my general apathy policy. User:Hinoa4/sig1 18:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- You seemed to care enough to post here. ~ 19:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Only for a second. And another one. Pah, logic, who needs it? User:Hinoa4/sig1M 05:25, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- You seemed to care enough to post here. ~ 19:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'll join this party. --User:OsirisX/sig 00:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- The apathy party is the place to be!--<<http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/f/f1/Bradmonogram.png>> 15:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
- mah, i'll join this, or maybe not im not really that bothered.--Silent Penguin 10:14, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Hot fudge brownie
- For --User:Savethemooses/sig 12:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, please Angela 16:02, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
- I'll take two. User:Hinoa4/sig1 03:26, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- Against. Too fat already.—User:Mandaliet/sig 08:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- for. yummy havn't had one in ages--Silent Penguin 17:35, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
Where were legal issues cited? Angela 16:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
- Cited here:
- Splarka's comments
- Discussion about subdomains.
- IRC discussions.
- Some interesting links: [1] [2] [3]
- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dawg (talk • contribs).
- I would like to note that Wikia as the entity did not officially explain anything, and I believe that this could very well be just a difference in individual accounts of what happened, which is very normal. However, since there's confusion, it'd be nice if someone who does know could tell us what we need to know. --Keitei 19:12, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
Currently unanswered questions?
A week after this turned up in whois (and hit the fan in IRC), many of the questions we've been asking still haven't been answered. Here are the first few that come to mind, feel free to add more: --Carlb 15:40, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
- If this was being discussed in secret for a few months, why was nothing said in the open during this time?
- For that matter, why was changing something as fundamental as the ownership of the site not discussed with the community as a whole?
- Would any of this name manipulation have been announced at all if we hadn't already found out through whois at that point?
- Why was no one in the Uncyclopedia community (and no one except Wikia Inc.) informed that the domain was even for sale until after it was supposedly too late to respond to this issue?
- For that matter why, immediately after all this hit the fan from whois, were we told in IRC "it seems jwales doesn't quite know what you're talking about"?
- What were the terms of the sale? What was the purchase price?
- "Twenty pieces of silver" is just an outsider's random guess, not a straight answer from anyone in the know - that (or "another ferrari") is the only 'info' out there? Without either being told that this was for sale nor the asking price, we weren't given a fair opportunity to see if the name could've been kept within the Uncyclopedia community by organising a counter-bid for this bit of IP that we had (for whatever reason) entrusted to someone who sold it out behind closed doors.
- If all parties involved were aware of the prior use and of the unrelated printed books with "uncyclopedia" names, why were the spurious claims to being able to trademark the name made?
- Furthermore, why was Jimbo asking me to sell the domain name out from under *.uncyclopedia.info? Does he even have a legitimate proposed use for it (other than preventing some other individual Uncyclopedian community from using the name and domain)?
- Can we in en:, should we defy Wikia in any way, expect to be treated in the same way as the Norwegian-language sista Ikkepedia when they moved external "due to unspecified performance issues"? They find not only an empty wiki (of the same or similar name) being run on the old http://ikkepedia.wikia.com site in direct competition to their http://ikkepedia.net but any reference on the old site to their having moved or their new location routinely deleted by Wikia staff.
- Why would anything be said in the open? This would just lead to a third party trying to buy the domain and would obviously not be beneficial to the community if that third party had no intention of continuing to host the site.
- The community never owned the domain - Chronarion did, which is why the discussions were with him.
- We were working on an announcement for this before the whois information was available, so yes - it would have been made public regardless of that.
- No one was informed the domain was for sale because it wasn't for sale. It was a deal between Chronarion and Wikia - he didn't just put it up for general sale.
- I wasn't on IRC at the time, so I've no idea what the comment "it seems jwales doesn't quite know what you're talking about"? means. From what I was told, he disconnected before being able to answer the questions on IRC.
- I'm not going to disclose the terms of the sale since it affects future domain transfers that Wikia might want to do,
- There wasn't an "asking price". It wasn't generally for sale to anyone who wanted it, but specifically for Wikia who were already hosting the site for free.
- I wasn't aware of unrelated printed books with "uncyclopedia" names, and I don't see how that affects the trademark if they're unrelated. You can have two different companies with the same name since trademarks cover particular areas of use.
- I expect Jimmy wanted the .info domain for the same reason we have wikia.info etc - to prevent other sites trying to mislead people into thinking they're on the real Uncyclopedia site.
- Wikia can't stop you leaving if you want to, but that doesn't mean we're going to remove this site just because you do.
- Angela 15:31, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- Thanks Angela. It means a lot, to me at least. :] --Keitei 16:01, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- For that matter why, immediately after all this hit the fan from whois, were we told in IRC "it seems jwales doesn't quite know what you're talking about"?
- I believe you were told that because I said it, because I asked jwales what was up with the domain, in #wikia, and he said he didn't know, then he left. But he came back and explained things, that he bought the domain from Chron, etc. So that quote is very out of context. I could be wrong, but I think I was the one who said that, or something similar to it. --User:ENeGMA/sig 16:13, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
- I wasn't in #wikia (haven't been on that channel since well before all of this) so I don't have that portion of context. In any case, I thank you and angela for whatever clarification you've attempted to bring to this whole situation --Carlb 16:26, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Responses from involved parties
The Fall of Uncyclopedia: An Inside Perspective
As we all know, Chronarion has been the owner of uncyclopedia.com for the last sixteen years. As Father of the Fatherland, founder, and member of the First Triumvirate, Chronarion has shown a steadfast dedication to the republic of Uncyclopedia and its publicani clients.
Unfortunately, it seems that during this time, he has become close friends with Jimbo Wales, best known for his family's collection of Sibylline Books housed in the archives of Wikipedia. While from a good family, Jimbo (or Junius, as his sister calls him) is a strict wikia-ist, and seeks to consolidate all wikis under that group's iron-clad fist.
While we the people love Chronarion dearly, and would take control of our Uncyclopedia if given the chance, it seems that Jimbo is now in firm control. Why would Chronarion, founder of Uncyclopedia and all-around good guy, throw away this prize, this jewel of a community? Indeed, why would he? Has something sinister happened, that we are all unaware of? Perhaps.
While Jimbo's family has a history of power-grabbing, it seems odd that he would undertake such a visible and publicly disliked overthrow of a popular leader. One wonders if he has perhaps pondered a career in philosophy. Perhaps not, but maybe he should. However, the likely cause of this hostile takeover is the recently discovered (via myspace it seems) images which seem to indicate that Chronarion has had an affair with his (Jimbo's) mother. Yes, it is true.
As both a business man and a politician, Jimbo can see the value in taking control of Uncyclopedia. And with such a connection to Chronarion, it was easy for him to slide our beloved leader a false petition, in order to blind him to the crime that was about to happen. But did no one else know of this? Could no one have warned Chronarion?
It was little more than four months ago, on March 15th, that Splaka got wind of a plot to overthrow Chronarion. Splaka tried to intervene in this plot, but was turned aside by Jimbo, his current boss. Unable to assist, he slipped into the shadows, a slave to the man. As Splaka fled, the plan was put into action, and Chronarion was cast down from his post as founder and owner of Uncyclopedia.
Perhaps we would never have heard of this brutal dispatching of our beloved leader, if Splaka had not come back to deliver his eulogy. Now we learn of the terrible crime that was perpetrated on dear Chronarion, and we see the veil of secrecy removed to show the terrible wounds he has sustained at the hands of Jimbo and his fellow conspirators.
Et tu, Jimbo.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Famine (talk • contribs).
1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 3
Hey, you're right!—User:Mandaliet/sig 08:18, 16 July 2006 (UTC)


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Enraged people in a village in southwest Iran stormed the Friday Prayer Imam's office, set it on fire, and attacked the Governor's building.
At least 300 people, including children, are believed to have been infected with HIV in the province by a medical assistant using a contaminated syringe, furious people say.
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People in the village of Chenar Mahmoud in the town of Lordegan, Chahar Mahal & Bakhtiari, maintain that their loved ones contracted HIV from contaminated needles used by the village's health organization to test for diabetes two months ago.
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Referring to Tehran's support for the Lebanese Hezbollah and Palestinian HAMAS, infuriated people chanted, "No to Gaza, No to Lebanon, I Sacrifice my Life for Iran."
A video published on Twitter shows people in Isfahan protesting in support of the victims and their demands. They are also chanting the same slogan against Iran supporting militant groups in the region.
Meanwhile, the state-run Mehr news agency (MNA) reported that dozens of the villagers in Chenar Mahmoud assembled on Saturday outside the Governor's office in Lordegan, demanding the judiciary to investigate the case.
"A limited number of 'opportunists' attempted to create disruption and sedition outside the Governor's building, but failed," MNA reported.
The protests initiated last Wednesday have gained momentum, and the security forces used tear gas to disperse angry people.
"The people of Chenar Mahmoud are scared," one villager told Iran Human Rights Monitor (IHRM), adding, "Many refrain from taking blood tests out of fear of finding out they have been infected. Every family of two or three has become inflicted with the virus. Anyone who has taken the test has turned out to be positive. And no one asks this regime, why do you need to test a nine-year-old kid for cholesterol and blood sugar and infect them with AIDS."
Protesters set fire to the office of Friday Prayer Imam.
In the meantime, a member of parliament's Health Commission, Behrouz Bonyadi, said on Saturday that the commission is sending a delegation along with several other lawmakers to Lordegan to investigate the case.
Furthermore, in a letter to the Minister of Justice, the Islamic Republic Minister of Health has insisted that HIV was detected in the village "a long time ago," but kept secret to respect the villagers' honor.
"The source of HIV outbreak was contaminated syringes used by drug addicts, as well as people who have 'unacceptable relations,' the Minister, Saeed Namaki asserted, adding, "We are going to treat people with HIV for free."
But this assertion by the minister is bound to further anger the affected people and their relatives.


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The PDF version of the 2Q 2007 Manhattan Market Overview [Miller Samuel] that I write for Prudential Douglas Elliman is available for download. I have been writing these market reports for them since 1994.
Here is some additional information from Prudential Douglas Elliman's CEO/President Dottie Herman covering the 2Q 07 report release. Since she purchased PDE four years ago, she has been unwavering in her support of my requirement to remain independent in the preparation of these reports (and of course, it goes without saying that I am also able to remain dull and boring).
In addition, you can see the methodology that went into the report including the neighborhood boundaries and the type of content we have available.
You can also build your own custom data tables using the aggregate report data (from 1Q 89 through 2Q 2007) and view a series of quarterly market charts, most related to the current market report.
An excerpt
…The number of Manhattan apartment sales are at record levels. Listing inventory has fallen sharply from recent highs. Two of three price indicators tracked in this study set records. Days on market and listing discount indicators are contracting. In contrast, national housing statistics, while not reflective of individual markets, show just the opposite. The New York City economy continues to show improvement coming after two consecutive years of record Wall Street bonus payouts. Preliminary indicators from the financial services sector show more of the same strength bonus income in the coming year. Mortgage rates are low despite recent increases. The government is running a budget surplus, unemployment is low and the weak dollar has brought in significant foreign investment. The constant in the demand/supply equation has been new development activity, whose pace has not abated for the past three years. It contributed to the rise in inventory levels of 2005 and 2006, but the significant demand has more than offset new product added to the market in 2007. The relatively inelastic short term response to demand suggests that the high level of demand is something to focus on for the remainder of the year and through 2008.
Download report: [2Q 2007 Manhattan Market Overview [pdf]](https://www.millersamuel.com/reports/pdf-reports/MMO2Q07.pdf)
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Katarina Hybenova
It was 2015 when a Bushwick-based entrepreneurial mom of two adult sons decided to start a business. She would offer "mom services" to the residents of Bushwick and beyond, dubbing her business "Need a Mom." An enormous media frenzy as well as many (mostly misguided) opportunities followed, and a lot has changed in Nina Keneally's life during those two years.
Nina first contacted Bushwick Daily in October 2015, because like she said, "if it didn't work in Bushwick, then it wouldn't work anywhere" as Bushwick was her target demographic. After we published the article, all hell broke loose, and hundreds of media outlets from around world were racing to tell Nina Keneally's story.
Two years later, you can still catch a video about "Need a Mom" on Vice's Snapchat or read about her in foreign press. We sat down with Nina at Trans AM, a homey coffee shop off of the Halsey L, and chatted about her clients, parenting, and vapid reality show producers.
A mom from Connecticut moves to Bushwick
Nina Keneally used to live in New York City as a young woman. Later she moved to Connecticut to raise her family where she spent the next 30 years. In 2013, she was bored in suburbia and with her husband decided to follow their sons (who are now both in their early thirties) to Bushwick, the neighborhood everyone had been talking about.
The idea to start "Need a Mom" came about organically. Nina has met a lot of young people in Bushwick, and didn't hesitate to help them when they lost a job or broke up with someone. Nina realized that through offering "mom services" she can make use of not only her experience as a mom, but also of her background in counseling, years working at a methadone clinic, and in theater production.
Hey mom, your phone's ringing off the hook
Nina had never suspected that her business would generate the amount of buzz it did. In fact, when the first reporter from a big newspaper called and asked her if her phone was already ringing off the hook, Nina was truly surprised. The reporter apparently told her, "Just you wait," and was absolutely right. "Need a Mom" was suddenly everywhere — on TV and in publications all over the world.
"I originally didn't even know if my business idea was viable. I thought that if it didn't work out, I could just laugh and tell everybody it was a conceptual art project," Nina says. "I thought that the wave of press would go away in two weeks, but it didn't. It went on for months."
Hey mom, help me!
Nina's client base has grown, even though not as significantly as you might think. Her clients range from teenagers to people in their early forties.
"I have a couple of clients I see regularly but most people are one-offs who just want to talk once or twice when they have an immediate problem or issue. That's made it a little bit difficult to sustain as an ongoing business due to its unpredictability," she explains.
However, Nina says that being "a mom" to her clients has been really rewarding and she feels like she's making a positive impact on the world.
Several of her clients are either estranged from their mothers or can't tell their mothers what's going on in their lives. Nina says that she's had a couple of older gay women as clients who were really happy to talk to someone who acts like their mother because their own mothers condemn their lifestyle.
She's had some heart breaking stories as well, helping people whom she says she didn't even charge because she simply couldn't. "A teen girl — I don't even know where she was from — believed that her mother hated her and was about to kick her out of their home," Nina says. She was also contacted by a young man from Afghanistan who just felt deeply lonely and hurting. "If anybody like that reaches out, I just keep up the conversation going as long as they want to keep it up," Nina clarified.
Nina says that people often want to talk to someone with a maternal presence who isn't their parent. "It's a maternal situation without all the baggage, without all the history," she says. Her business, as she says, is really about personal mentoring which however doesn't sound as good as "Need a Mom."
Hey mom, let's make money
In connection with all the press, Nina received many offers — some more interesting than others.
One of the ideas was to franchise her business and to have "moms" working under her brand all over the world. She had to think long and hard about it but ultimately decided not to pursue this opportunity, mainly because it would have taken her away from the work she actually wanted to be doing, and instead she'd have to get investors, train, and vet other "moms."
Hey mom, scream like Gordon Ramsay
Nina says that she's had at least 12 different reality shows production companies contacting her. One of the companies, Nina explains, wanted her to be a "Gordon Ramsay of moms" with all the drama and screaming that comes with it. "But that's really not what I do, especially not just to satisfy [a production company] and their viewership," Nina says. "Also if I were to do something like that, I'd have to make sure it wouldn't be an embarrassment to my family."
Nina also pointed out that everyone she's dealt with treated her as disposable "IP" or an intellectual property. "Once they decide not to go with you, they don't even have the courtesy to tell you. They just ghost you. It's awful," she says.
Hey mom, wanna write a book?
A literary agent reached out to Nina to write a book. "She didn't want me to write the book I wanted to write," Nina explains. "She wanted me to write a book with tips for parents of young adults." Furthermore, the agent wanted the book full of anecdotes from her clients, but Nina was just starting out the "Need a Mom" business, and "Honestly, I didn't have that many anecdotes from my clients to support all that," she says.
Also many of her clients had very similar issues, so there wasn't the diversity of problems the agent was hoping for. "It was either problems with roommates, work, love, or parents," Nina sums up.
Nina's book idea was based more around the challenges young adults face right now. "I'm not interested in telling their parents what to do with them," she says. Humorously, Nina adds that if she were to write a book for parents of young adults, it would contain only one piece of advice: "If you're asking yourself, 'Should I butt in or should I butt out?' the answer is always 'butt out.'"
Nina says she has come across parents who are beyond "helicopter parenting." She calls them "cockpit parents," who are involved in their offspring's life beyond what's healthy. "I've seen a parent call an HR department of a company where their kid just sent a resume, telling them how good the kid is. Pepsi started a 'Bring Your Parent to Work Day'" which is just too much," she says. "My philosophy is to never give my sons unsolicited advice," Nina goes on. "And they should own their decisions. Do you want to work in arts? Okay. Do you want to live in NYC? Okay. But you have to own your decisions and make it work."
Nina also feels very strongly against parents subsidizing their child's rent, even if in special circumstances she can imagine it. "If it's a tough month, or they just got to New York," she says, "but if you do that for a long period of time, you're infantilizing your children, and underneath that there's a resentment because the offsprings feel as if you're still controlling them."
Hey mom, let's make your life into a sitcom
Last year Nina got an email from a production company in Santa Monica, CA, who wanted to option her life story for a TV show. "I thought it was completely hysterically funny," Nina says.
The producers just wanted to take the concept of "Need a Mom" and build a show around it. According to Nina, they worked on a pitch and submitted it to FOX, CBS, TV Land, and NBC. They even flew her to LA, but ultimately the show didn't sell.
Nina has her own theories as to why. "First of all," she says, "they were calling the TV show 'Adulting,' which made me want to throw up. They positioned it like a traditional 30-minute-long sitcom, sort of like 'Friends' — a divorced mom moves to the same building that one of her kids lives in — but I think it should have been more like 'Gilmore Girls' — a comedy and drama." Another big mistake Nina thinks the producers made was that they didn't anchor the show in Bushwick. It was just New York. "I think it should have been anchored very firmly in Bushwick, and Bushwick should have been almost a character. That's what makes it a little different and interesting for people who don't know how it's like to live here — with all the problems the neighborhood is facing."
What the future holds for Nina and "Need a Mom" is in the stars. One of the possible outcomes Nina cites is having to move out of Bushwick as her husband retires. The local rents might be too high even for a celebrity mom.
Cover photo: Nina Keneally by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily


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NEWPORT, R.I (WPRI) — It's out with the old, in with the new in Newport.
This week, crews began tearing down a two-story building on America's Cup Avenue to make way for construction of a new boutique hotel.
Project leaders say The Brenton Hotel will be complete by Spring 2020.
The hotel will have 57 rooms for guests, in a five-story structure along the waterfront on the corner of America's Cup Ave. and Long Wharf, adjacent to the Newport Visitor Information Center and the Newport Marriott Hotel.
Guest parking will be located on the ground floor.
Project leaders say the concept is to build an upscale property, but also keeping in tune with downtown Newport's historic charm.
"We obviously wanted to respect the heritage and the history of Newport, but also bring something that's a little more progressive, so I think it brings the best of both traditional architecture and a progressive new look to it that we not only think will be an icon new Newport, but will really excite our guests," said Dan Paquette of investment group LWH, LLC.
In addition to construction jobs for the next 14 months, Jeff Farrar, managing partner of LWH, LLC says the hotel will also create about 40 to 50 full-time jobs once the hotel is complete.
"I've watched Newport develop over the years into a tremendous four season, year-round resort area, and we really feel like we're gonna contribute to that continuing and we really hope that we can have a positive impact in Newport going forward," Farrar said.


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We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney
One of the greatest blessings for a curious person is that they will never get bored! In fact, the benefits of curiosity don't just stop there; curiosity has been linked with psychological, emotional, social and even health benefits.
Curiosity and exploration can help us to embark on some of our greatest adventures. They are the first steps our mind takes toward some of our greatest discoveries. Learning something new, overcoming challenges and exploring our potential are all possible because we are curious and we have the desire to explore.
Eleanor Roosevelt once said, "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." I must admit I couldn't agree more with that sentiment.
What is Curiosity?
Curiosity is the engine of intellectual achievement. Those who are more interested in a topic will learn faster and prime the brain better for learning. Curiosity is also associated with high performance in both academic and work settings, and there is an increasing amount of evidence that suggests that the more you learn, the more you want to learn. In many ways, curiosity is the catalyst of innovation and curious people have an ongoing, intrinsic interest in both their inner experience and the world around them.
Curious minds are active minds, and active minds become smart minds. Curiosity is associated with intelligence, creativity and problem-solving ability. Curious people cultivate interesting and creative environments for themselves as they seek out new experiences and are open to exploring new ideas and possibilities. Everyone possesses curiosity to some degree, although people will differ according to the depth and strength of their curiosity and their willingness to act on it.
So How Do Leaders Empower Curiosity?
It is important to understand that successful organisations are rooted in curiosity, and establishing a culture that actively supports and rewards questioning minds is the foundation for success. Inquisitive thinking, of course, can lead to the status quo being challenged and this in turn can be disruptive. If there is a disconnect between the leader's and team members' view on the value of curiosity, then it could potentially stifle a baseline level of ideas exploration. On that basis it is essential that leaders understand the benefits of curiosity and fully open their own minds in the process.
This reminds me of a time I worked in a team with someone who was one of the most curious people I have ever met. He liked to leave no stone unturned! Our manager at the time was very much an autocratic leader and clearly did not enjoy being challenged. During team meetings my colleague would always drill down on any instructions she shared, thirsty to fully understand whatever he was being asked to do and the motivation behind any directive.
In one team meeting, during his usual line of scrutiny, she eventually snapped back at him "Why do you have to keep asking so many questions?" to which he immediately replied, "Why wouldn't I?" Even our frustrated manager smiled and raised an eyebrow at his response.
Embracing questions and encouraging inquiring minds in a team is critical to progress and also exploring a wider perspective in each given situation. We are living in an age where thinking differently and turning ideas into innovation is key. This is an idea economy where business success and indeed survival is often defined by the ability to turn ideas into value faster than the competition. Creating time and space for curiosity will encourage creative thinking and support growth mindsets within teams.
There is also more of an emphasis on encouraging employees to learn, unlearn and relearn so that they stay current in their thinking and let go of redundant approaches. Continuous learning is of paramount importance when it comes to building a smart, relevant and fit for purpose workforce.
Curious minds will also be more inclusive and better equipped to respect and appreciate diversity because curious minds will want to learn about other people. Encouraging your teams to learn from each other and share rich and diverse experiences will encourage stronger, more supportive relationships as well as promoting inclusivity.
It is also really helpful through times of uncertainty and rapid change to encourage curiosity, as this can help people within your team to manage the fear of the unknown. Curiosity will help them to look upwards and outwards and be interested in what they will learn from the experience. Curiosity can indeed be very valuable for everyone in these unprecedented and challenging times.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvellous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.
- Albert Einstein
From: Old Man's Advice to Youth: 'Never Lose a Holy Curiosity' LIFE Magazine (May 1955)
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