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Jury finds man competent to stand trial:
On April 29, 2008 after deliberating for approximately 50 minutes a Pittsburg
County jury found Clint Baker competent to stand trial for the murder of Todd
Rich. Clint Baker was charged in the District Court of Pittsburg County on
March 17, 2007 with Murder in the First Degree. Mr. Baker's jury trial is
scheduled on the August 2008 Jury Docket.
Pittsburg & Haskell County
It is the
mission of the
Office to repre-sent
the people of
District 18, to
help provide a
safer community
for all, to hold
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their crimes and
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Mike Miller
Wade Dodson
Lisa Birdwell
Russell Tacheira
2008 Vol. 2
On April 14, 2008 Pittsburg County Drug Court con-ducted
its first graduation. Seven people who were fac-ing
years and years in prison because of drug charges
successfully completed the 18-24 month program and
have started a new life without drugs.
Pittsburg County: On May 27, 2008 the District Attorney's Office received
notice that Franklin Gibbs' appeal was denied and that the verdict of Life
without Parole was upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Pittsburg County: On May 1, 2008 a jury decided that an Oklahoma State
Penitentiary inmate, Garry Thomas Allen, is sane and can be executed. In
November of 1986 Garry Allen committed the crime of murder in the first
degree in Oklahoma City. Garry Allen gunned down his girlfriend outside
of a daycare center, just four days after she had moved out of his home with
their two children. Allen was hiding in an alley when officers responded to
the 911 call. Allen struggled with the officer and attempted to take control
of the officers weapon. The officer shot Allen in the face. Allen remained
hospitalized for approximately two months. Allen entered a blind plea of
guilty before the Judge and was sentenced to Death. After exhausting his
appeals Allen was scheduled for execution in 2005. The allegation that Al-len
had "become insane" was raised and a stay of
execution had been ordered. The Oklahoma Department of Corrections
will now re-set his execution date.
The purpose of the Crime Victims Compensation Act is to provide a
method of compensation for victims of violent crime. All funds come from federal
and state offenders through fines and penalty assessments. An arrest of the of-fender
does NOT have to take place in order to be eligible to file a claim; however,
the victim and/or claimant is expected to fully cooperate in the apprehension, in-vestigation,
and prosecution of the perpetrator. The claimant is also expected to
fully cooperate with the District Attorney's Office and Victims Compensation
Board staff during the processing of the claim.
For more information on Victims Compensation or to print out an Official
claim for visit this website:
Four staff members of the District 18 District Attorney's Office have been
recognized this year for their outstanding service to their community.
Brenda Kelley-Fields was honored this year by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Board for actions taken when
a child was severely injured in a collision at a McAlester Football game. Brenda worked as a McAlester Cam-pus
Police Officer and has dedicated her career to helping the youth in our community. Brenda is an Investiga-tor
for the District Attorneys Office and is the Assistant Director of the DA's probation and supervision divi-sion.
Amber Suter was honored with the Governor's Commendation for her service to victims of crime. Amber is
the Victim Witness Coordinator for Pittsburg and Haskell Counties. She spends many hours working with vic-tims
of crime and assisting them with services available to them. She also helps coordinate the attendance of
witnesses to all hearings and trials. She was honored with the Governor's Commendation for her commitment
and dedication to helping victims. She has worked for the District Attorney's Office for nine years.
Donna Ford was also honored with the Governor's Commendation for her commitment and dedication to vic-tims.
Donna and Amber were two of only four people in the State recognized by the Governor for this award
this year. Donna is the Office Manager for the District Attorney's Office and Assistant Victim Witness Coordi-nator.
Donna assists with overall management of all cases filed in the District Attorney's Office and makes
sure that witnesses and victims are informed of court matters and manages the restitution files for victims.
Donna has worked for the District Attorney's Office for eight years.
Jessica Gilliam was honored as a Friend of Child Advocacy by the Pittsburg County Child Advocacy Board.
Jessica is an investigator for the District Attorney's Office and is the Director of the Probation Supervision
Division. Jessica has attended numerous education programs relating to the investigation and prosecution of
child abuse and works tirelessly to protect children from abuse. She formerly was employed by the McAlester
Campus Police and has worked for the District Attorney's Office for three years.
Pittsburg County
122 East Carl Albert Parkway
McAlester, OK 74501
Phone: 918-423-1324
Fax: 918-423-8575
Haskell County
202 East Main
Stigler, OK 74462
Phone: 918-697-4648
Fax: 918-967-2443
The Pittsburg County District Attorney's Office along with the
Pittsburg County Court Clerk and Judges have moved into the
"temporary" courthouse located across the street from the
current courthouse.
The new address is 122 East Carl Albert Parkway, McAlester,
The District Attorney's Office is located in the basement of the
building. The entrance to the District Attorney's Office is
located in the alley on the south side of the building.
This will be the new courthouse, once it has been
renovated, The District Attorney's Office will no longer
be inside the courthouse but in the building below. District Attorney, Jim B. Miller;
Finance Director, Jerri Davis and
Office Manager, Donna Ford
attended a Conference on Office
Administration, May 18-22, 2008 in
Marco Island, FL. New computer
programs and management ideas
are forthcoming because of the
excellent information
gathered there.
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FFCSR_Doug 1 decade ago
Hey Guys,
Sorry for no updates the past couple of weeks. We have not been on vacation in Aruba, but are working on a couple of big things (unfortunately can't go into too many specifics - know the creptic message will bring lots of guesses).
So many of the upgrades, future lineup, co-commish, logos, have been put on hold for the moment.
They are still priorities to us though and we understand how important they are to you guys.
As soon as we can go into more specifics, we will provide you as much detail as possible about what we have in store.
dolphinollie 8 years ago
I know 3 guys make up Flea and only one programmer. Is this a part time gig for Flea? I along with everyone else who plays fantasy here don't understand why it takes so long to have changes made. I beleive you when you say you are working on big things but what gives with how long it takes for change?
Over the summer we thought more big things will be ready for football this year and the biggest thing was a celeb thing? Can you give us some insight as to how Flea works...
Davy_CrockettTX 8 years ago
Is Fantasy basketball streaming going to be fixed in time for the season??
PigskinPlague 10 years ago
It seemed like an update to the system might have been made today, June 2, 2009. Were there any changes? If so, what are they?
scotto1959 10 years ago
the draft order has my lego colored blocks?
[Deleted User] 10 years ago
I have a gut feeling that these upgrades will be definitely noticeable. Anyone want to make a bet? :)
scotto1959 10 years ago
got ten on live scoring.
FFCSR_Doug 10 years ago
The site may be down intermittently over the next two days. Nothing is wrong, we are just making some upgrades. If you have any questions or issues send us an email.
[Deleted User] 10 years ago
Anything you can leak to makes us keep checking back lol? :)
DARKSEID 10 years ago
Doug, how about another hint? I keep coming up with you guys are working on fantasy baseball. Am I right? How about a yes, no, or maybe?
scotto1959 10 years ago
looks like he just checked in from Aruba.


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u should swap the trailers,, not sure if your 209 will fit.....maybe someone on hear knows more but if u could that would be a nice trailer to have!
We love it and we consider ourselves fortunate to have it.
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Chief how about an update !
Hope its going good!
CHIEF/... sent you pm about your seats...
Slowly inching forward... sliding backward, and moving forward again. Seriously it will be in the water this weekend... as repeated the last two
After getting the cutless Bearing installed in the strut I found I have to deal with this problem
I was hoping I wouldn't have to clean up the underwater gear until after I pulled the boat for the winter and adressed the antifoul paint, Oh well here we go. Nice and shiny now
I won't go into how long it took me to replace the cutlass bearings. All I can say is It's a real fun job to figure out while laying in a gravel driveway.
Lunch break is over gonna line that shaft up and get the log seal in place next.
Might as well add these for your enjoyment...
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I have to say, A project boat, even for a mechanically inclined person is going to present some major challenges. I'll be the first to admit the thought that I was in over my head crossed my mind on a few occasions.
With a little luck, good and bad, I am exactly where I hoped to be at this point. After retrieving the holestar project from Indiana, things definitely started to fall into place. The availability of Teamtalk, and CCFan has been a key component of getting help when I needed it. Without the interweb and an old skibuddy who owns a shop in FL I still would be trying to sort out a bunch of small details that contribute to major headaches when not addressed.
Took entirely too long removing the old cutless bearing and squeezing in a fancy plastic one.
Scroll up to a previous post and look at how nicely that strut cleaned up after I removed it and paid a visit to the media blaster.
Cleaned up the shaft log fittings, bought some new rubber from Skidim and packed some new seals in it.
My ski buddy stopped by last week was apologizing for not being much help I had an idea for a project for him. I was thrilled to see how nicely it cleaned up.
Meanwhile I continued to clean things up and bolt them back in.
I was able to figure my shaft alignment problem, and get the couplers lined up perfectly.
Scrubbed and installed the exhaust, fuel line and hooked up transmission and throttle cables.
Mrs. Chief started believing and got on board with a nice purchase for herself.
Younger brother found me a nice bargain on an OEM cover. You wouldn't believe the improvement on curb appeal with a sleek new black jacket to keep the elements out.
Thankful That Jonnyski2 Left me with a charged battery from the Holestar.
Even the depth meter seems to be working.
Well we got power, Whats next?
Seems simple a few key flips to see if the fuel pump whirrs... Nothing... oh yeah try to remember what I did with the safety lanyard... Screw it I got a spare boat, easy fix. Nope, not that easy nothing is happening. Lets think a bit.... Oh yeah, plug the wires into the backside of the lanyard switch you unplugged months ago. AHH, satisfaction. fuel pump is whirring, gauges are buzzing lets make a fake a lake and crank on it.
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The engine fired right away and after after messing with the throttle linkage a bit, it idled perfectly.
Spent most of Friday messing with this dang thing and trying to figure out the right combination of linkage plate angles and installation.
Not sure how long I just cycled this thing back and forth to figure out how it is supposed to work.
Had about an hour left of daylight and decided, lets get this baby wet. Lake is only 15 minutes away. What could go wrong?
Backed it in fired it up and the shifter linkage wasn't right... Screw it I want to drive it. Unhooked the linkage put Mrs Chief at the helm while I manually shifted it and we take it for a lap around the bay. What a major relief that was, I was so afraid I would have a bent or misaligned shaft, a bad prop or some drivetrain vibration to troubleshoot. That fear was put to rest quickly. I was impressed and relieved the boat drove as nicely as my Buddy's 197 TT I've been driving and skiing behind. It did get pretty interesting trying to dock it in the dark with the Mrs. at the wheel receiving throttle instructions from me (The Shifter).
Spent Saturday morning figuring out the transmission linkage and bolting in some of the interior pieces. Took it out for a shakedown run and it was flawless. Got back to the dock sent out some texts to find a driver and took a nice afternoon nap in it.
What a great feeling after 6 months work to get this boat in the water, get a wakeboard pull, and then give the guy who's been the catalyst for me getting back into waterskiing a pull behind my boat.
Sunday it was raining and a bit windy, but still 75 degrees. The running boat allure was too strong to keep us away, so we took a 10 mile trip up the lake. I had the wife drive and coached her on driving straight lines, avoiding swamping fishing boats and holding a speed since the perfect pass is inop right now. I hung the rope out and practiced a couple skier pickups and takeoffs. I then got the board on and had her give me a pull. The Mrs. did an excellent job her first time at the wheel of our boat. She was a farm girl and can operate a tractor so she is basically just recalling muscle memory right?
I still have alot of work, I could go all WV hillbilly and run it like it is, But I had to pull it out and bring it home so I can work on getting it cleaned up and ready to leave in the lake for the summer. She will be in good company this summer.
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In one of the most aggressive and competitive areas in the country to do business, you'll find one of the most down-to-earth businessmen in the lighting industry.
Michael Estrin, President of Estrin-Zirkman Sales, has been covering metropolitan New York and northern New Jersey with his independent rep agency for nearly 25 years, growing his business from a solo operation to a team of nine and counting. His entrepreneurial spirit and work ethic guided him to take a risk in starting his own company, and he says once it happened, he never looked back.
"When I started my agency, I had a newborn, a five-year-old, two car payments, a mortgage payment and no income," Estrin recalls. "But I had a lot of faith in myself, and a lot of drive and desire."
And, as is proof by his longstanding success, those few things are all you need to get started.
The Beginning
Estrin grew up in the electric business … sort of. His mother's father owned an electrical supply house in Queens, NY, which he sold in the 1960s. Estrin's father and uncles then started a decorative lighting showroom in Nanuet, NY, in 1968, one of the first of its kind in that area. But this didn't sway Estrin to jump head first into lighting; he went to college at Bentley University in Waltham, MA, and promptly got a job selling copy machines.
"It was one of the worst jobs in the world, but it gave me tremendous sales knowledge and I was able to learn the processes to be successful," he says. Eventually, he had had enough of copiers, and reached a point where he was offered an opportunity to work with an independent lighting rep.
After learning in that position for a few months, he accepted a job as a house rep with Quoizel, where he stayed for four years before starting his own rep agency with Kichler. That was 24 years ago.
"I did want to join my dad's showroom, especially before I started repping because I wasn't as successful doing the things I was doing, but that was never going to be an option based on the business agreement he and his partners, my uncles, had," Estrin explains. "That was fine, as it benefitted me in many, many ways — I wasn't given a business, I took the risk to be an entrepreneur."
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The risk was worth it, and Estrin now has a thriving agency to show for it. He's based his company, which reps about a dozen lines, on honest communication, excellence in presentation, and morals, ethics and integrity above all else.
"Every day, Michael brings passion and energy to his craft," says Dave Pamer, Executive Vice President of Sales at Kichler. "His intentions and the challenges he presents to Kichler are with one purpose — to make us, his agency and the products, solutions and services that we bring to his customers, better."
Estrin has hired a talented team to help him carry out this vision. The first person who joined Estrin's company was his wife of nearly 32 years, Mandy. In a day without cell phones, Estrin didn't have enough time to make all the calls he needed to make while also being out on the road, so Mandy started pitching in.
"I needed help," he remembers. "Neither of us knew it then, but she became an integral part of the business that way, and still is to this day."
Estrin and his wife have now worked together for 23 years, and she says it's pretty easy to separate work from home. As for how it is to work together?
"He's proud of what he does, and that makes me proud to work with him in turn," Mandy says. "His kindness and generosity have helped him accomplish so much; just being a good person has gotten him to where he is today."
His willingness to help has certainly made a difference. Today, Estrin is the Chairperson of the American Lighting Assn. (ALA) Board of Governors and a member of the Political Action Committee. He also belongs to the National Association of Women in Hospitality and the Designers Lighting Forum of New York.
As for why he donates so much of his time to these industry organizations, Estrin has this to say: "This industry has been very good to me and my family, so giving a little bit of time I find personally satisfying. Being on the ALA Board of Governors has been a true privilege."
Estrin's efforts with and for the ALA have not gone unnoticed by those who he works with there, and the impact he has had will be longstanding.
"Michael has tirelessly worked on behalf of the lighting industry and is very deserving of this high honor," says ALA President and CEO Eric Jacobson. "He has led the association through some challenging issues and always used his intellect and keen judgment to positively affect ALA."
Even after the effort he gives to organizations and his demanding work schedule, Estrin always finds time to spend with his wife and two children, Melanie and Benjamin, and his friends.
"My life is all about the seriousness of working and the seriousness of having fun," he says.
And don't worry…he also says he's no where near retirement, so we will all have the pleasure of working with him for many more years to come.


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The young French designer Pierre Favresse created this multicoloured modular floor lamp composed of a metal base containing a source of light of three stackable Pyrex glass components, in cyan, magenta and yellow, topped by a white diffuser.
"Adversely, adding certain colored filters creates a phenomenon which is commonly called subtractive color synthesis.
When different layers of color are added to an object, such cyan, magenta and yellow, they generate transitory opacity which naturally guides the light through its matter. The gradual settling of accumulated layers creates an opaque filter which in turn gradually blocks out the light to end in the production of black light", the designer explains.
'mischlichtRGB' by Fabian Nehne (DE) und Martin Meier (CH)
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Don't believe everything you think.
The more I know, the less I know.
Interesting.....so what would St. Mark have to say to us today?
There are other ways of making the Orthodox presence in the Diaspora known besides involvment in the ecumenical movement. Charitable organizations draw a fair amount of attention, so some soup kitchens (or something of that nature) that are Saint _____ Orthodox ______ would cause people to notice Orthodoxy. At Greek festivals (which are very well attended by the general public) there could be more done in terms of Orthodox missionary work opposed to the normal limiting of the festival to simply secular parts of Greek culture. Monasticism itself causes Orthodoxy to be noticed in the communities where monasteries are located... so American Orthodox that actually promote monasticism would be good. And I think completely withdrawing from ecumenical dialouge would be the greatest witness we could send as our very participation in ecumenism (at least from my POV) makes the notion that Orthodoxy is just a quaint Roman Catholicism without a Pope more plausible. And then there is the reality that Orthodoxy will most likely never be a big player in American Life/culture.BTW, nice avatar Bob - I use to have an Oscar and other types of cichlids.
St. Mark Eugenius of Ephesus along with St. Photios: My brave herosJoeS
I don't know exactly what happened in Ephesus (I wasn't there that day ) but what kind of evidence is there that St. Mark was unwavering in his decision to not reunite because the conditions of reunion were a compromise of the Faith? Or was he just stubborn and didn't play well with others? We know that reunion ultimately is a good thing, which is why we even have ecumenical dialogues. We just need to watch it that we don't change something that is unchangeable and slip into someone else's heresy, or create a new heresy. That's my 2 pesos.
One of the biggest problems here in "the west" is that no one simply knows that we exist. We can be all steadfast in our faith, unwavering, etc. but if no one knows that we're even here to share the Truth, then what good are we doing?
The Church has decided that he is a role model. But for which situations?
My understanding is that EP at the time, and most of the Bishops of the Eastern Church, wanted to reach an accomodation with the Pope in order to obtain assistance from him in staving off the downfall of Byzantium to the Islamics.St. Mark (blessed be his memory) was the only Bishop who said that he would not go along with that.
They were kept there for years and eventually placed under house arrest and fed meagre rations until they "made the right decision". They were finally allowed to return, after all except for St Mark had signed the agreement.....
To bust out some philisophical terms that I probably am going to end up using wrong anyway, I think that even if our Church is small and unknown as Elisha suggests, the Church has an ontological importance since the Church exists and brings sanctification to our members regardless of what others know about it.But on the other hand, in a practical sense, the Church exists to spread so if we are not spreading we are not "being" the Church in the correct way (how is that for an overused term
This may be one POV, but I believe that there are others that say that the Greeks were fed well and were not restricted at all in their movements.
(sigh) it is not a point of view.
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Eradication of HIV-1 from CNS Reservoirs: Implications for Therapeutics (R01, RFA-MH-13-030)
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) invite research grant applications to address the problem of HIV-1 persistence focused solely on the central nervous system (CNS) of HIV-infected persons treated with Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART). This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) will support innovative research in five areas: (1) basic research to identify and characterize CNS-based cellular reservoirs of HIV-1 for individuals on HAART; (2) basic research to determine the mechanisms involved in the temporal establishment, maintenance, and resurgence of CNS-based HIV-1 reservoirs in relationship to the effects and timing of HAART, viral expression, and viral evolution within the brain; (3) development of physiologically relevant animal models and CNS-based cellular assays that recapitulate HIV-1 persistence and latency in the presence of effective HAART; (4) drug screening of potential agents which traverse the blood-brain barrier and eliminate latent or other sources of residual virus in the CNS; and (5) design of therapeutic strategies aimed at eradication of HIV-1 from the CNS. Applications ranging from basic to translational research in domestic and international settings are of interest. Multidisciplinary research teams are encouraged but not required. Letters of intent are due August 12, 2012. More information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-MH-13-030.html.
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Upcoming Conference: Seeking Solutions: Maximizing American Talent by Advancing Women of Color in Academia, June 7-8, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC
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North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity
Persons interested in the Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity must hold an earned PhD and meet the qualifications of their project of interest. The post doc will be required to teach one class per year based on his/her background and interests. Additionally, the post doc will work on one project with the Office of Diversity Affairs. Therefore, prior experience working with underrepresented minority populations is highly desirable. $40,000 to $45,000 per year PLUS benefits and up to $1500 for professional development. By May 4, 2012, interested persons must contact the project leader of the project in which they are interested. Interested persons of Native American and African American decent are encouraged to contact the project leader. Potential projects include Environmental Remediation Sciences, Investigation of the Genetic Control of Basal Immunity in Maize, Weed Science and Pest Management, Ecoinformatics, and Geomicrobiological Research in Environmental Remediation. For more information visit http://projects.cals.ncsu.edu/toxicology/people/david-b-buchwalter/, http://www4.ncsu.edu/~pjbalint/peter.htm, http://www.cropsci.ncsu.edu/personnel/jordan_david/, http://cals.ncsu.edu/plantbiology/Faculty/twentworth/twentworth.html, or http://www4.ncsu.edu/~owduckwo/.
Kenneth V. Ralston, MD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
Cancer patients, particularly those with neutropenia, develop bacterial infections often. Quinolone prophylaxis during episodes of neutropenia has been used in such patients in order to reduce the risk of infection. Although successful, this strategy results in the development of quinolone resistance among patients with gram-negative pathogens such as Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and these isolates may be resistant to other agents as well. At M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (an NCI designated comprehensive cancer center), quinolone resistance among E. coli isolates was found to be 46% and 40.9% were also resistant to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Incidence of Fluoroquinolone-Resistant and Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli at a Comprehensive Cancer Center in the United States, Chemotherapy 2011;57:335-338). The carbapenems and aminoglycosides retained excellent activity against these organisms. Extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBL's) were produced by 9.25% of these isolates overall, but ESBL production was higher (18.3%) among bacteremia causing isolates. Periodic surveillance studies, such as the one we describe are important, as they provide real time data to help guide infection prevention, treatment and antimicrobial stewardship strategies.
Dr. Kenneth Rolston (http://www2.mdanderson.org/app/peoplefinder/person.cfm?id=3D5FDED9C11B) is a Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control and Employee Health at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Adjunct Professor at the College of Pharmacy, University of Houston, Texas USA. He gained his MBBS degree in 1972 from Punjab University, India, with post-graduate training (residency/fellowship) in India and the USA. He has authored over 300 peer-reviewed articles and is an active member of several committees including Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) , and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Febrile Neutropenia Guidelines panels, and the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Antibiotic Stewardship Program , and Quality Improvement Program . He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Finding where and saying where: Developmental relationships between place learning and language in the second year
Frances Balcomb, Temple University
Nora S. Newcombe (PI), Temple University
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- Balcomb, F., Newcombe, N. S., & Ferrara, K. (2011). Finding where and saying where: Developmental relationships between place learning and language in the first year. Journal of Cognition and Development, 12, 315-331. [DOI]
How do we remember locations and find our way back to them? After all, we regularly find our way, even, like our ancestors, without a GPS. Avoiding getting lost matters, as does finding your car in the middle of the night after getting off the airport shuttle, jet-lagged and weighted down with baggage. In addition to being able to represent locations spatially, we can also talk about them, using language like prepositions, which tell us about the relationship between things. For example, in the real world, you could walk to or point to the car's location in Figure 1, and also describe its position as under the tree beside the flowers and in front of the house. Does spatial language bear any relationship to our non-spatial representations of where things are? How do these systems (verbal and non-verbal) develop in relationship to each other?
Figure 1
There are different ways people can remember locations and navigate to them. One is ego-centric (related to ourselves), and another is truly spatial. You can remember that something is on the left of you (egocentric), and you can also remember that it is north (spatial). If you walk out the door of our infant lab, for example, the parking lot is on your left, and also to the west. No matter where you face, the parking lot will always be west of the lab, but if you turn 180 degrees to face the door, the parking lot will now be on your right. Place learning, the interest of this study, is the ability to calculate spatial locations using distances and directional information from distant features, regardless of egocentric information (Newcombe, Huttenlocher, Drummey & Wiley, 1998; Sluzenski, Newcombe, & Satlow, 2004).
In young children, there is long developmental trajectory of spatial skill development. Initially, infants develop an awareness of their own movements, (Landau & Spelke, 1988; Lepecq & Lafaite, 1989; Rieser & Heiman, 1982; Tyler & McKenzie, 1990), and this egocentric information gradually is supplemented with spatial coding. In the second year of life, place learning emerges between 20-24 months (Newcombe et al., 1998; Sluzenski et al., 2004). For example, when children are faced with the task of finding a hidden object after a position change, only children older than 22 months can use external features (the skill involved in place learning) to increase the accuracy of their searches (Newcombe et al., 1998).
Developmentally, there are different theories of how language and spatial concepts emerge. The specificity hypothesis (Gopnik & Meltzoff, 1986; 1987) suggests that during the single word acquisition period of language development (15-24 months) there is a relationship between the emergence of linguistic skills and non-linguistic skills that rely on shared foundational knowledge (e.g. spatial navigation and spatial language skills). Prepositions, specifically, have been discussed as emerging from and capturing infants' perceptions of spatial relations, such as the locations of objects, as well as the path component of action events. For example, actions that involve going in or moving out will be captured as the prepositions "in" and "out" (Mandler, 2006). By these accounts, similar domains in cognition and language would be expected to show a relationship to each other during development.
The purpose of this experiment was to explore the relationship between prepositions and place learning at an age when both are emerging, looking at how children are able to begin to remember locations, and whether or not this spatial awareness can be seen in their first words. Children were tested using a spatial task adapted from the Morris water maze (Morris, 1984), and the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory. In the place learning task, children were placed in a round enclosure and a puzzle was hidden under the floor at one location. Before each trial, children were spun, to disorient them, and placed down at a different starting position, and asked to find the hidden puzzle. Their search types and success at finding the puzzle were coded.
Figure 2: The place learning task apparatus. Note that during the task the puzzle was hidden under the pool's floor.
What we found was that older children had significantly larger expressive vocabularies than younger. In addition, they had significantly stronger spatial skills, as shown by searching in the correct area of the pool more often than younger children, as well as pinpointing the goal location (place learning) (see Figure 3). Although language and place learning both correlated with age, once age was partialled, there was no correlation between them. The crucial exception was prepositions, the acquisition of which was correlated with place learning. The finding of a spatial- specific language linkage, as both language and place learning undergo rapid change, suggests an intriguing story about the interaction between various cognitive systems, beginning as early in development as when the systems themselves emerge.
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- ♦ Gopnik, A. & Meltzoff, A. (1986). Relations between semantic and cognitive development in the one-word-stage: The specificity hypothesis. Child Development, 57, 1040-1053.
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Oh. Well, It's Fordo. Deal with it.
Quote from: Roton7 on April 25, 2006, 09:35 PMUhhh...his name is Fordo.And when did he die? Fordo didn't die or was shown in the Battle Of Coruscant... But the Shocktrooper Commander got shot down by a MagnaGuard.
Uhhh...his name is Fordo.And when did he die?
i thought commander thire was in charge of the shocktroopers?
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Sandler's rep blasts death rumours
The funnyman passed away after suffering fatal injuries during a Christmas skiing trip in Switzerland, according to the crazy online story, but Sandler's spokesperson has moved swiftly to dismiss the shock speculation.
The rep tells GossipCop.com, "It's completely not true and such irresponsible journalism."
Sandler is the latest star who has had to respond to a Christmas death hoax - publicists representing Aretha Franklin, actor Charlie Sheen and singer Aaron Carter have also spoken out to clear up upsetting fictional reports.


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Funniest Signs In Wichita Falls and What They Should Say – Joshua David's Top Five
I have received several emails with pictures of funny, weird or unbelievable signs from around the world. But I knew we had to have some local signs here in Wichita Falls that could fit in the same category. As I took off on my adventure in my little hamster-powered Toyota Prius, I had my camera ready to snap photos of the top 5 funniest signs in Wichita Falls.
BUT, I didn't stop there! I also included my own interpretation of the signs and changed them to what I thought they should REALLY say. So as you browse through the photo gallery, enjoy the before and after photos of Wichita Falls' funniest signs.


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While the financial crisis is increasingly in the rearview mirror for many, policymakers in the U.S. and abroad continue to be — and rightfully so — preoccupied with preventing another systemic failure of the financial system.
This is especially true for the Financial Stability Oversight Council, or the "FSOC", a creation of the Dodd-Frank Act, which is charged with the extraordinary task of identifying and taking action to reduce systemic risk. To this end, the FSOC has the authority to designate certain non-bank entities as "systemically important financial institutions," or "SIFIs," which are subject to prudential regulation, such as capital requirements and supervision by the Federal Reserve.
As stewards of retirement assets for millions of individuals and thousands of institutions, PIMCO's business depends on well-functioning global capital markets and as a company we welcome the government's focus on facilitating a more stable financial infrastructure. Yet the concern is that the FSOC — with its seemingly singular focus on SIFI designation of large entities, such as asset managers, and its associated opaque processes — is in fact drifting from its goal of reducing systemic risk.
The worry is that the designation of asset management firms as SIFIs would not improve financial stability and would in fact result in unintended and undesirable consequences. PIMCO is concerned not because the firm is reflexively against regulation — in fact, as fiduciaries and registered advisers, the asset management industry already operates in a highly regulated world. It's that the designation of asset managers would represent bad public policy and would inevitably harm investors.
How? While the FSOC has yet to promulgate the policy measures to which SIFI asset managers would be subject, those it may consider, such as capital requirements and measures to limit redemption activity, could fundamentally and adversely alter the relationship asset managers have with their clients. At the center of that relationship is the fiduciary duty of an asset manager to clients — a binding legal obligation to function solely in their best interests.
By requiring certain SIFI funds to hold more capital (e.g., more cash), for instance, an asset manager's ability to optimize the return and risk objectives of its clients — and function in their best interest – would necessarily be hampered. The practical effect would be that the savers and retirees invested in those funds would suffer, either from diminished performance, or if they felt compelled to select another manager, from a smaller universe of asset managers from which to choose.
Asset manager designation would not only hurt millions of savers and create winners and losers in the asset management industry, but it also would not reduce systemic risk. Unlike banks, which as entities arguably do give rise to systemic risk, asset managers function as agents that manage other people's money and do not trade for their own account.
Moreover, asset managers typically have small balance sheets, even though the "assets under management" may be large, which underscores a key distinction: Assets under management represent someone else's assets. Each client account represents a separate legal entity to which an asset manager has no legal claim, and each client has its own distinct return and risk objectives for its assets that are held at a third-party custodian bank. Moreover, unlike banks, asset managers do not depend on leverage as part of their business model. For these reasons, asset managers as entities pose little systemic risk.
History would validate the argument that asset managers are not sources of systemic risk. No traditional asset manager was at the heart of the financial crisis, and of the more than 700 recipients of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) money, not one was an asset manager. To our knowledge, no mutual fund with a floating net asset value was unable to meet redemptions during the crisis. In many cases, asset managers were not only able to protect, but to grow their client assets in the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Of course, the FSOC has little use for previous crises; it is more concerned with future risks. And while there are risks in the asset management industry, those risks are not consolidated in particular entities. The FSOC goals would be better served if it considered the activities within the capital markets that give rise to systemic risk. Activities, such as excessive leverage and liquidity transformation, bear more study and possible policy recommendations on an industry-wide basis.
This framework approach is consistent with years of capital market regulation. PIMCO hopes that as the FSOC spends more time engaging with the industry and its primary regulators, it will conclude that asset managers do not pose systemic risk. Instead, the FSOC, our clients and the system as a whole would be better served by focusing on industry-wide, activities-based policies, which have served the country well for years.
Douglas M. Hodge is CEO of asset management firm PIMCO. This article reflects the opinions of the author but not necessarily those of PIMCO.
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Robert M. Townsend
Robert M. Townsend
Jan. 4, 1925-Feb. 21, 2013
ROCHESTER — Robert M. Townsend, 88, of Rochester, died at 6:05 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at Woodlawn Hospital.
On Jan. 4, 1925, Robert was born, the treasured son of Walter D. and Mary Elizabeth Wheadon Townsend. Growing up as one of seven children he shared his childhood with four sisters and two brothers. Following high school, patriotism beckoned him and he enlisted as a member of the United States Navy, serving our country during World War II in the Pacific Theater.
On Feb. 24, 1945, Robert and Bonnie L. Stretch were married in Rochester. Their wedding anniversary of 68 years is Sunday. Over the years they raised two fine sons Larry and Paul. The family tree continued to grow with the added blessings of five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
An American sportsman, Robert enjoyed hunting deer, trapping and fishing. He was a member of a horseshoe pitching team in Florida while living near Lake Placid. To relax he enjoyed watching RFD-TV and cheering for the Chicago Cubs.
In 1988, Robert retired from Dean Foods following 23 1/2 years of dedicated service. He was also a member of the Steelworkers union #5840, over a 60-year member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Robert and Bonnie were loyal and devoted to their First Baptist Church. He was also a member of the American Legion.
As a farmer, Robert embraced the planting and harvest seasons. His first John Deere tractor was a 1946 A. The last tractor he farmed with was his cherished 1980 John Deere 4030. Following his retirement, Robert made more than 60 pounds of delicious homemade noodles each week from a secret recipe handed down through the generations from his family.
Robert is lovingly remembered by his wife Bonnie; two sons Larry G. Townsend and wife Sheri of Plymouth, Paul D. Townsend and wife Melba of Roann, four sisters, Mary Catherine Gast, Norma Jean Vedder and husband Gene, Donna Maxine Overlander and husband Raymond, Carol Ann Bradway and husband Bob, two brothers, Harold LeRoy Townsend and wife Georgia, Jack Lee Townsend and wife Wanda all of Rochester; three granddaughters: Amy Blackburn and husband K.J., Robin Huffman and husband Vincent, Julie Hughes, two grandsons: Kris Fear and wife Lisa, and Kerry Fear; 12 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a great-grandson.
A celebration of the life of Robert M. Townsend will be at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013 in the Good Family Funeral Home, 1200 W. 18th St., Rochester with Dr. Mark Spencer officiating. Friends may visit with the family from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday in the funeral home.
Interment will be in the Rochester IOOF Cemetery where military rites will be conducted by the Fulton County Honor Guard and the United States Navy Honors Team.
Memorials may be made to the 1st Baptist Church, 1000 Main St., Rochester, IN 46975 or to Riley Hospital for Children, 30 S. Meridian St., Suite 200, Indianapolis, IN 46204-3509.
Online expressions of sympathy may be made to his family at www.goodfamily.com


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If it wasn't leaked that Staal wanted to play with his older brother, we could of just let him play and tried to keep talking contract the rest of the year. But knowing that one peice of info forced us to play our hand in offering him a contract, once it was rejected the writing was on the wall and getting all you can get was the only way to go.
Lucky Carolina was in just as much a hurry to get Jordan as we were to get something for him so it all worked out.


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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks surged on Wednesday, with the Dow industrials notching their largest first-session-of-the-year-point rise ever, as Wall Street welcomed an 11th-hour deal to avoid steep spending cuts and tax increases and pondered deficit moves still ahead.
"The next focus will certainly be what happens in the next two months in terms of addressing spending and the effect of whatever we do on GDP growth rates," Art Hogan, a market strategist at Lazard Capital Markets LLC, said of the impact of reduced government spending on the economy.
The measure approved by the House of Representatives just after 11 p.m. Tuesday undid tax hikes for all but one to two percent of U.S. households, with the bipartisan vote ending a lengthy standoff over how to avoid more than $600 billion in tax hikes and spending cuts viewed as likely to push the economy back into recession.
Yet the deal was not the grand bargain on cutting the nation's red ink that lawmakers intended when they came up with tax-and-spending deadlines during the past few years.
The measure bypassed much of the immediate trauma poised by the fiscal cliff and marked only one piece towards cutting the federal deficit, with a February battle looming over increasing the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling.
"We can celebrate the fact that we avoided catastrophe, but we'll certainly focus on the making of spending cuts to get the rest of the fiscal cliff averted. Does that mean we ignore economic data and the M&A going on? Probably," Hogan added of upcoming economic reports that include the nonfarm payrolls report for December due on Friday. Read: What's the chance the relief rally will last?
"As we head into the next couple of weeks, we'll get to figure out if we can make spending cuts with a scalpel or a sledge hammer," said Hogan. Separate drama over deficit spending awaits.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -2.10% rose 308.41 points, or 2.4%, at 13,412.55, with Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ, -1.11% and Caterpillar Inc. CAT, +0.64% leading gains that included all of its 30 components. Read about Wednesday's biggest stock movers.
The S&P 500 index SPX, -1.90% climbed 36.23 points, or 2.5%, to 1,462.42, with telecommunications the best performing of its 10 major industry sectors, all of which advanced.
Wednesday's session also marked the first time the S&P 500 opened five years in a row with a gain, with Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Indices noting that "the market moves in the same direction as its opening day 50% of the time."
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United States Steel Corp. X, -0.84% climbed 8.6% after Credit Suisse upgraded it to a buy rating.
Zipcar Inc. US:ZIP jumped 48% after Avis Budget Group Inc. CAR, -1.92% said it would acquire the company.
The Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.99% added 92.75 points, or 3.1%, to 3,112.26. Shares of iPhone maker Apple Inc. AAPL, -2.68% rose 3.2%. Read: Apple sentiment improves with new year.
For every stock that fell more than 10 gained on the New York Stock Exchange, where 859 million shares traded.
Composite volume neared 4.2 billion.
Equities remained in party mode after the Commerce Department reported U.S. construction spending fell 0.3% in November. Separately, the Institute for Supply Management said its gauge of manufacturing activity expanded in December, to 50.7% from 49.5% the month before.
As equities rallied U.S. Treasury prices fell, with the yield on the 10-year note US:10_YEAR used in determining mortgage rates and other consumer loans rising to 1.84%.
As the market kicks off the new year with a rally, Mark Hulbert has evaluated the significance of January for stock investors. Read his column here on how different January is from other months.
Hulbert also has another column looking at why the smallest-cap stocks tend to be favored in January. Read that column here.
And for investors wondering whether it's best to trade or not to trade, here's a good analysis by Michael Kahn. Read: Don't be afraid to trade.
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Ludemco necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 41 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We seek a clean, professional and strong logo for our Legal Advice Website. Logo for use on letterhead, cards, website and promotional documents.
Juridisch Forum .be
We are currently re-designing our existing Legal Advice Forum into a professional Legal Advice-platform. We seek a clean, strong and professional logo which underscores trust / reputation / professionalism.
- It needs to be fitting for "branding"-purposes: website, letterhead, envelopes and cards.
- It needs to fit into the redesgined header which can be seen here: http://www.screencast.com/users/web…f3c6a7776a BUT there should still be place for a banner (min. 465 px) AND the background of the header will be white
- The colours should fit the coulours used on the URL mentioned above BUT: the grey background in the header is no longer valid, it will be a white background (!)
- Please do not use green (!) I prefer blue or orange (as can be seen on the screenshot mentioned above)
- The currently used "balances" can be re-used, but that's certainly not a "must".
- Logo should really be "strong", clean and professional
- Our brand name = "juridisch forum" (Dutch meaning "Legal Forum")
- Our tag-line = "informatie is de beste verdediging" (this is Dutch and means "information is the best defence")
- I like the header of http://www.nieuws.be very much
- I love the dynamic feel of the icon (scales) which can be found here: http://www.juridischforum.be/reus
- crazy amateuristic graphics
- wild colors
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Blast at Tennessee plant kills 1, injures 3
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A plant explosion and fire killed one person and left three injured Wednesday, emergency authorities said.
The plant is located on a property where several businesses have federal licenses for ammunition and explosives, said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives spokesman Michael Knight. Knight said it was unclear which plant was involved, and he said agents were still trying to determine exactly what happened at the site in McEwen, about 55 miles west of Nashville.
"The explosion did considerable damage to the facility," said Odell Poyner, director of the Humphreys County Emergency Management Agency.
Poyner said authorities received reports that about 20 employees were in the building at the time of the explosion and fire, which he said blew out two walls and a large portion of the roof. He said he didn't know who owned the building but he believed that the property it sits on belongs to Accurate Energetic Systems, a company whose website identifies it as a manufacturer of explosives for the defense and aerospace industries.
A telephone number listed for AES rang busy numerous times and later was picked up by a recording saying the business was closed.
It was not immediately clear which happened first, the explosion or the fire.
Firefighters from both Humphreys and Hickman counties battled the blaze at the plant, located in a rural area right near the line dividing the counties, Poyner said. The fire ignited several brush fires in a nearby forested area. All had been extinguished by Wednesday night, he said.


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Have Oil Companies Hit a (Growth) Wall?
Billion dollar write downs and falling profits from two of the biggest oil companies could mean a limit to how big oil companies can get. Heard on the Street's Liam Denning joins MoneyBeat. Photo: AP.
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