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Gardeners asked to watch out for rare bumblebee
by Bethany M. Dunbar
copyright the Chronicle 4-24-2013
NEWPORT — Home gardeners rely on wild pollinators to help their gardens grow, but one species of bumblebee is in big trouble.
Others have already gone extinct, leaving the remaining species to fill in the gaps.
Larry Clarfeld, an educator for the North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, studies Vermont's bumblebees. He told a group at Newport Natural Foods and Montgomery Café on April 10 that while there are still lots of bees, biodiversity of the pollinators has dropped dramatically.
The meeting was part of a master gardener lecture series.
Mr. Clarfeld said there are, in all, 33 species of bumblebees in this country. Of those, there are 19 or 20 in Vermont.
"Why is biodiversity important?" he asked rhetorically. Without it, he added, "We're making our ecosystem more and more fragile."
He said each bumblebee species has a different lifestyle and niche. Some have long tongues to reach into deep-throated flowers. Others are active earlier or later in the season. Some are most attracted to one particular flower or do better in warmer or cooler climates. The more types there are, the more chance that various plants will get pollinated.
"Certain types of orchids are only pollinated by bumblebees," he said.
Bumblebees are not the same as honeybees. He said honeybees can be compared to cows. They are domestic animals, useful to people, but not native to the places where they live now.
Honeybees have suffered recently due to a problem known as colony collapse disorder.
An article in the New York Times on March 28 says colony collapse disorder was first discovered around 2005, and the past year saw 40 to 50 percent losses. The article talked about California almond growers, where honeybees pollinate 800,000 acres, using two-thirds of all the commercial hives.
Mr. Clarfeld said some of the theories about what is causing problems for both wild and domestic bees include pesticide and herbicide use, habitat destruction and climate change, and viruses. Between 1994 and 1996 bees were taken to Europe and brought back, and a disease came with them.
Mr. Clarfeld said researchers really don't know what is causing all the problems but are starting to try to find out.
"It's hard to protect and conserve something if you don't understand it and don't know where it is," he said. As it happens, some work had been done in Vermont by author Bernd Heinrich, who wrote a book called Bumblebee Economics in 1979.
New research has started to find and map all the bee species in Vermont, and Mr. Clarfeld decided to help as a volunteer.
So last summer he adopted six areas specified by researchers and systematically looked for bees.
"All my free time was spent chasing around bumblebees," he said. He would drive around a particular quadrant, stop at a specific location and go catch bees. In most cases he killed the bugs he caught, rinsed them, blow dried them, and pinned and labeled them. The one exception was the species that is so rare, bombus terricola. He did not kill any of that species. Over the course of the summer he caught 700 bees.
"As a result, I saw almost every species of bee," Mr. Clarfield said. Differences in markings are sometimes so small that it can be difficult to tell what species one is looking at until a precise measurement of jaw length is made, for example.
Bombus terricola, the yellow-banded bumblebee, still exists in Vermont even though it has died out elsewhere.
"It seems to have a stronghold in Vermont," he said. "Something in Vermont is allowing them to survive."
"This is a bee that is being proposed to be an endangered species," he said, along with two or three others.
Bombus terricola can be distinguished from other bumblebees by its black body and wide yellow double band in the middle and two narrow yellow bands at the front and back. Mr. Clarfeld said these are sometimes hard to see on the back.
Gardeners who think they might have a bombus terricola in their garden are asked to take a photo and post it to a website about insects called The Xerces Society for Invetebrate Conservation. www.xerces.org.
Another website with good information is bugguide.net. Mr. Clarfeld said if you can't figure out what bug you have seen, you can post a photo and a naturalist will identify it for you, sometimes in minutes.
More information about the Vermont bee study can be found at this website:
Gardeners who want to encourage and help bumblebees can plant some of their favorite flowers. Mr. Clarfeld said these include red clover, purple vetch, milkweed and bee balm.
"Pollinators are important, and they're in trouble," he said.
contact Bethany M. Dunbar at [email protected]
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Lidia Zayas is looking forward to spring break 2013, not because she's headed for fun in the sun, but because she will be leading an Alternative Spring Break service-learning trip through the University's S.O.U.L.S. Service Learning Center.
As a freshman, Zayas helped build a house through Habitat for Humanity during the 2012 Alternative Spring Break, working alongside the family that was going to live in the new home.
"The people I met and the things I saw opened my eyes," says Lidia. "It's a great experience and you meet great students and staff along the way."
Joining clubs and becoming as much involved in campus life as possible is a great way to enhance the college experience, according to Zayas, who also is involved with the Black Student Union and the Women in Business club. She is treasurer of the University's Hispanic Association and is working with members of the club on incorporating a volunteer experience.
"I got involved in so many organizations because I feel that if you are just going to class and then home, you aren't receiving the full college experience," says Zayas. "And being involved has opened so many networking opportunities."
While Lidia, who has been volunteering since high school, is hardly new to community service, it still serves as learning opportunity for her.
"I've noticed that volunteering any free time can really make a difference in many people's lives," she says.
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Below is a table representhing the roms for Time Pilot (Centuri) and its clones (if any). Red roms are similar between all versions but green roms differ, which means that if you wish to change the game's region or language, it may be possible make the change simply by reprogramming fresh roms with other version's contents.
Note that the rom information displayed here is automatically parsed from Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (www.mame.net) C source code, so some of it can be incorrect. However, if you notice that some parts of the data are constantly incorrectly displayed in more than one game, please contact me so that I can fix the problem.
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By proposing to implement this restriction on the Church of England and Wales, the government risks alienating those religious people in favour of equal marriage and provides further ammunition for its opponents, many of whom now claim that legislative developments on the issue have appeared muddled and erratic.
Responding to government proposals on the implementation of marriage equality earlier this week, Conservative MP Richard Drax stated in the House of Commons, 'I would like to ask the Secretary of State and the government what right have they got, other than arrogance and intolerance, to stamp their legislative boot on religious faith?' It is in an attempt to safeguard religious institutions from legislative intolerance that the government made its announcement this week that the Church of England will be prohibited from performing same-sex marriages should they be introduced.
Maria Miller, the Culture Secretary, explained the policy in Parliament, stating, 'European law already puts religious freedoms beyond doubt, and we will go even further by bringing in an additional "quadruple legal lock". But it is also a key aspect of religious freedom that those bodies who want to opt in should be able to do so.' Despite this mention of the opt-in, one of the four parts of the 'quadruple legal lock' includes legislation explicitly preventing the Church of England from carrying out same-sex marriages. This threatens to inhibit rather than ensure religious freedom for religious institutions wishing to marry same-sex couples and risks alienating religious individuals in favour of equal marriage.
It would seem that the government has failed to distinguish the many shades of difference of opinion within the Church of England and in Wales on the issue of equal marriage. The assumption that same-sex marriage is necessarily oppressive to religious groups as though they are a monolithic whole can be dispelled by looking at both the Church of England and the Church in Wales, prominent members of which have expressed disappointment in the last week over the government's announcement.
The Bishop of Leicester, Tim Stevens, as well as a spokesperson for the Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, have both criticised the apparent lack of consultation regarding the 'quadruple legal lock'. But in her address to Parliament, Maria Miller said, 'Because the Church of England and Wales have explicitly stated that they do not wish to conduct same-sex marriages, the legislation will explicitly state that it would be illegal for the Churches of England and Wales to marry same-sex couples.'
Even if prominent figures within either Church had indeed articulated this 'explicit' opposition to equal marriage during the consultation period, Miller's reasoning for the plans seems too simplistic, not only in light of the variety of views on equal marriage among religious individuals but also given its many proponents within the Conservative Party itself. Just last week, the Telegraph reported on a group organised by key Conservatives including London Mayor Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Michael Gove in support of same-sex marriage within religious institutions. Prime Minister David Cameron has also announced that he favoured equal marriage within the Church.
These complications are making it easier for outright opponents of marriage equality, such as those within the Catholic Church, to more easily undermine the government's progress on the issue. In response to Miller's announcement, a statement released by the the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales said that the government's approach 'can only be described as shambolic' and went on to complain that, 'There was no electoral mandate in any manifesto; no mention in the Queen's speech; no serious or thorough consultation through a Green or White paper, and a constant shifting of policy before even the government response to the consultation was published today.' Arguably, the response among outright opponents of equal marriage was always going to be negative, but confusion over the legal impact on religious institutions widens the scope for further criticism and doubt over the government's competence over the issue.
By proposing to implement this restriction on the Church of England and Wales, the government risks alienating those religious people in favour of equal marriage and provides further ammunition for its opponents, many of whom now claim that legislative developments on the issue have appeared muddled and erratic. In an attempt to prevent equal marriage from being forced upon religious institutions, the government now suggests that the Church should be forced to turn same-sex couples away. Religious believers who support equal marriage may now be inclined to ask of their government, 'What right have they got to stamp their legislative boot on religious faith?'
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I admit that I enjoyed the Sex & the City tv series. In fact, it was the SATC girls who introduced me to what may be my favorite cocktail of all time: the Bellini.
The SATC movie (the first one) didn't appeal to me. I was watching it while luckily flying first class to San Francisco and despite the free flowing wine and halfway decent food you get in first class, I still lost about 2 hours of my life to that movie. That said, the trailers alone for SATC2 look better than any of the first movie. My fingers are crossed.
Anyway, I sort of owe those lovely ladies for introducing me to the Bellini. I was inundated with press releases this week about the second movie release. Two of those press releases included some decent cocktail recipes, which I'll share.
(Oh, and before you ladies ask – I'm a "Charlotte." I love her clothes and her attitude.)
The first is a cocktail created by the mixologists at The London NYC – The Sexy London.
The Sexy London
2 oz. Green Cardamom Infused Vodka
1/2 oz. Triple Sec
1/2 oz. Rose Syrup
1/2 oz. Cranberry Juice
1/4 oz. Lime Juice
1 pinch of mint
Shake and strain into martini glass!
Next, of course, variations on the Cosmopolitan – often a favorite of the SATC girls.
The Cosmopolitan Dreams (created by Dale DeGroff)
3/4 ounce Citrus Vodka
3/4 ounce Cointreau
3/4 ounce Cranberry juice
1/4 ounce Fresh lime juice
2 1/2 ounces Piper Heidsieck Champagne
Assemble the vodka, Cointreau, and juices in a boston shaker with ice and shake well to chill.
Strain into a champagne glass and fill with champagne. Garnish with a flamed orange peel.
The Original Cosmopolitan (created by Dale DeGroff)
1 1/2 oz vodka
1 oz Cointreau
1 oz cranberry juice
3/4 oz lime juice
Shake and strain into a chilled martini glass.
Garnish with a twist of orange
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Hi Tommy --
I'm interested in hitting. I'm in Montecito Heights, so we could probably agree on a decent court location. Lemme know.
Hey Mike,
Would love to hit. Let me know your sched. I'm flexible but I like weekdays, late mornings.Good courts for us may be Elysian or Hermon Park.
Perfect. I'm also flexible. Hermon Park tomorrow at 10:30? I could also do Thursday.
Sounds good, see you then. Call me if any changes.
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shinji ure awesome ^^
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@Jorlwind: It's alrite now. I redid my BG. Thx for your info!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to sound offensive ><
btw, nice backround. And the tiling should help. I do like the idea of customly inserting each side piece though.
Big Brother is Watching You.
The quick posts are genius.
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New features:
- allow star members to skin their profile page with a background image and banner image, like how the front page is right now (check your Edit Profile page) edit: the bg img currently isnt tiled, so the img needs to be big enough to show on the sides. also u cant choose just a color right now..might change it later tho
- video uploads now require info on subtitles and audio language
- soft subtitle partial typesetting support for .ass (system fonts, sizes, colors, and outlines)
- add SRT softsub export (in addition to SSA export), for the softsub owner only
- add forum posts back into search results (it was just the threads for a while)
- added /squelch /unsquelch toggling to the right-click menu in chat
- updated subtitle manager and uploading capabilities
- added a GB-to-GB link and QuickGB buttons to Guestbook entry Notifications
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- allow users to delete their own softsubs, even if it's approved
- added support for left-to-right reading for manga
- removed 3 character minimum limit for search
- added Crunchyland tab for search (searches items, avatar classes, npcs)
- paginate/scroll the in-video-player media recommendations that show up after the video finishes
- testing new design on video page (again) for some people
- phantom uploads buffer overflow fix. sometimes uploading a video would fail and not show in upload manager.
- soft subtitle lines within quotes don't appear
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- if browser is zoomed in/out, the video player doesn't change sizes, causing video to be smaller or larger (and making playback bar disappear)
- synchronize group invitations and buddy requests with their corresponding Notifications
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edit again: the two skins issues are fixed! now you can just set a bg color and tile a small bg image. yay
Thankz Shinji! I will try my best! =D
o.O Havent been on in such a looong time =)
I'm loving the skins and Quick Reply buttons on the Notfications. It makes replying go literally like 3x faster. Dah, I should have been patient to wait for the tiling T_T. Do0my did her own tiling in Paint last night to make it work lol!
dam it why have to be Star Member =/
Sweet updates, Im soo considering being a star member to get the back ground on my profile
Soooooo tempting hehehe
Single and Happy - But Still looking for love
Yay skins <3
Eh?!!!...only the star member who can skin their profile?...I really want a star...
but actually I'm not
ohh thx 4 the update ^^
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New features:
- allow star members to skin their profile page with a background image and banner image, like how the front page is right now (check your Edit Profile page)
edit: now you can just set a bg color without a bg image, and tile your bg image. yay!
OMFG I love you....
*in shock, words can't express how awesome this is*
life is crazy, embrace it, or it'll run off with your money!
Why dont u allow that all can have a bg on their profile ?
Thanks for the new skin feature!
Lol. backgrounds and banners for star members? thats pretty awesome. makes me want to be one even more. When i get my new laptop, thats the first thing ill do! lol. there were a lot of updates to softsub. ive never really used them that much, its still pretty cool though. Thank you for fixing all those bugs as well! =D
I can't stop coming back to crunchyroll, 12 years later...
Lucky star members and unfortunate non-star members.
Our profiles will still look identical. ~ D:
Nice GB updates.


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Montclair, NJ – Junior running back Bill Roman (Annandale, NJ, St. Peter's Prep) rushed for 126 yards and two touchdowns while freshman Rashad White (Teaneck, NJ, Teaneck) returned a kickoff 91 yards for a score as Montclair State snapped a two-game losing streak with a 24-14 Homecoming victory over The College of New Jersey on Saturday afternoon.
The MSU defense forced seven turnovers as the Red Hawks avoided their first three-game losing streak in 17 years, improving to 3-4 overall, 3-2 in the NJAC. Montclair State also upped its record in the oldest active in-state collegiate football rivalry to 50-28-2 over the Lions with their 11th win in the last 14 meetings.
Senior quarterback Daniel Duhttp://montclairathletics.com/admin/admin_main.aspxgan (Clark, NJ / Arthur L. Johnson) accounted for TCNJ touchdowns as the Lions dropped their second straight falling to 2-4 overall, 1-3 NJAC.
Taking over at its own 9, TCNJ marched 63 yards in 14 plays moving to the Montclair 28 before making the first of its crucial mistakes in the game as Dugan was picked off by junior safety Matt Mancino (Wall, NJ, Wall). Montclair would give the ball back on a punt however on the first play linebacker Adnan Sakiri (Ramsey, NJ, Ramsey) forced a fumble that was recovered by Marc Aspinwall (Little Ferry, NJ, Ridgefield Park) as the Red Hawks took over at their own 26.
Montclair State then cashed in with a 74-yard drive to take the lead. Drew Cathey (East Rutherford, NJ, Becton Regional) found Nick Cassetta (Lodi, NJ, Lodi) for 24 yards to midfield on the first play and several runs later, Montclair had the ball at the TCNJ 27. Cathey found Bryan Ogden (Wayne, NJ, Wayne Hills) for nine yards and Roman rushed for 10 yards to the TCNJ 8 as the first quarter ended.
The Red Hawks drive stalled at the Lions 6 to start the second quarter however a pass interference penalty kept the drive going with Roman finishing it off on a two-yard run as Montclair State led 7-0 with 13:10 left.
Midway through the quarter the two teams traded fumbles as MSU's Axhi Sakiri (Ramsey, NJ, Ramsey) recovered a fumble by the Lions which then was turned back over as TCNJ's Nick Bricker (Middletown, NJ / Middletown South) forced a fumble that was scooped up Thomas Masi (Middletown, NJ / Middletown South) giving TCNJ the ball at its own 19.
That turnover sparked the Lions who then marched 81 yards in 2:32 to tie the game. Dugan hit Justin Doniloski (Rockaway, NJ / Morris Hills) for 19 yards and later found Matthew Rosati (Bayonne, NJ / Bayonne) for 23 yards down to the MSU 26. Following a pair of run, Dugan connected with Nicholas Tyson (Freehold, NJ / Freehold Boro) for a 16-yard score as TCNJ knotted the contest at 7-7 with 4:10 to play before halftime.
The score wouldn't be tied for long as White electrified and dazzled the Homecoming crowd of nearly 4,500 with the longest kickoff return by an MSU player since 2005 and the first run back for a score since Jeff Bliss went 89 yards against Wesley in 2007. Taking the ball at his own 9, White avoided three tacklers at the 30 yardline before bursting through a seam and stepping away from a shoe-string tackle near midfield. He then cut back across the field and outraced several more defenders for the touchdown as Montclair State led 14-7.
Things would get worse for TCNJ as it fumbled on its ensuing possession after driving to the MSU 35. Dugan was sacked by Dan Barletta (New Providence, NJ, New Providence) who then recovered the fumble giving Montclair possession at its own 45 with two minutes left.
MSU turned that into points as Cathey found Aaron Williams (West Orange, NJ, Jonathan Dayton) for 20 yards on a 3rd-and-10 and had three more completions which got the ball to the TCNJ 18 with 19 seconds left. Kicker John Schubert (Maybrook, NY, Valley Central) connected from 35 yards out as the Red Hawks led 17-7 at halftime.
TCNJ would get the ball to start the second half was forced to punt giving possession back to MSU. On the first play Roman ripped off a 66-yard touchdown run as the Red Hawks extended their lead to 24-7 just 74 seconds into the third quarter.
It then went from bad to worse for the Lions as they fumbled on the kickoff giving the Red Hawks the ball at the New Jersey 22. But the Lions defense held as TCNJ avoided any further damage as Matt Chierici (Towaco, NJ / Montvile) blocked a field goal attempt.
New Jersey gave the ball right back as Fred Sprengel (Wall, NJ / Wall) couldn't hold on to a lateral pass which was picked up by Montclair's Allen Phillips (Kenilworth, NJ, David Brearley) who returned the fumble to the TCNJ 20. The Lions would hold again as Thomas Hoppe (Manville, NJ / Immaculata) got a sack forcing MSU to punt.
TCNJ cut the lead to 24-14 as Dugan ran the final 21 yards of a 10-play, 80-yard drive with 5:47 to go in the third quarter.
In the fourth quarter, Chierici blocked another MSU field goal and the Lions looked to capitalize on the momentum shift driving to the Montclair 31. But on a 4th-and-3, Axhi Sakiri and C.J. Conway (Folsom, NJ, Hammonton) stopped Tyson two yards short of a first down which turned out to be the Lions last major threat.
Cathey was 15-of-26 for 145 yards for Montclair State with Ogden getting six catches. Williams and Mark Reynolds (Hackettstown, NJ, Hackettstown) had three receptions each. Adnan Sakiri had nine tackles for the Red Hawks while Conway and Michael Klimek (Cranford, NJ, Cranford), who had an interception, posted eight and seven tackles, respectively. Defensive lineman Rob Allen (Perth Amboy, NJ, Old Bridge) also had seven tackles.
Dugan was 26-of-50 through the air of 234 yards and also rushed for 42 yars on nine carries. Doniloski had eight receptions for 54 yards in addition to rushing 15 times for 66 yards. Linebackers Greg Burns (Hamilton, NJ / Hamilton West) led all tacklers with 12 as he topped the 300-tackle mark for his career. Bricker finished with 11 tackles.
Montclair State is now off until Saturday, October 27 as they travel to Danbury, CT to face Western Connecticut in a 1:00 pm kickoff as the Westside Athletic Complex. TCNJ will host its own Homecoming contest next Saturday, October 20 as the Lions battle Kean University at 2:00 pm.
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Montclair, NJ – Junior running back Bill Roman (Annandale, NJ, St. Peter's Prep) rushed for 126 yards and two touchdowns while freshman Rashad White (Teaneck, NJ, Teaneck) returned a kickoff 91 yards for a score as Montclair State snapped a two-game losing streak with a 24-14 Homecoming victory over The College of New Jersey on Saturday afternoon.


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From early childhood Charndra McKay, 39, has battled obesity. Yet every meal wages a war within her. She reached higher for a deeper answer, which was vulnerability.
From early childhood Charndra McKay, 39, has battled obesity, but her two young daughters give her reason to change. Yet every meal wages a war within her. She reached higher for a deeper answer, which was vulnerability.
When her church in Randolph asked her to share something about her walk with God, Charndra decided to strip away shame and secrets, the emotional weight at the heart of her physical weight. She took a deep breath and dove into the murky waters of her past.
In front of 500 people Charndra said: "My childhood was tainted by sexual abuse, violence and alcoholism. I learned at an early age that food meant comfort, it was something to look forward to, an escape from the things going on around me.
Without really understanding it at the time, I started using food to build layers of protection around myself to hide from unwanted attention and deal with emotions that I could not understand or express. I learned early how to hide away the most fragile parts of myself from others and keep up appearances."
Even her closest friends were held at a comfortable distance, and she admitted, "This is also true of my relationship with God. Though intellectually I understand that nothing is hidden from God, at times I have struggled to pray, stay connected with and trust him."
However, a scripture holds there are no secrets or false fronts with God, and there remains only to take responsibility. Charndra shared Hebrews 4:13: "Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account."
Love from her husband, Madison, and their daughters Aziza, 3, and Eliana, 1, helps her to break free of a lifelong cycle.
"Being a mom of daughters, I am often faced with unresolved issues from my past and doubts about whether I can be the mom my girls need me to be. I want to be a better example for them in my walk with God, my health and relationships."
Last October Charndra weighed 265 lbs. This past June she weighed 224, and said, "I removed inflammatory foods from my diet (wheat, sugar, legumes, soy dairy and grains) and my meals consist of lots of vegetables, lean protein and limited fruits." To overcome hurts from her past, she surrenders inner transformation to God.
"Without a change in my heart and deeper convictions I will end up right back where I started. The food may change but the heart and habits remain the same without his help."
She counts on what God promised in Ezekiel 36:26, "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."
Charndra said, "When we feel like we cannot or we don't want to be vulnerable, we are too afraid to trust God. We can remind ourselves that God became completely vulnerable to us, he died naked, abandoned and alone on the cross."
And then the stay-at-home mom stepped down to thunderous applause.
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Indian Wells, Calif. - Entering the Big WEst Championships as the No. 7 seed, the Pacific women's tennis team saw its season come to a close in the first round of the tournament with a 4-0 loss to No. 2 seed, UC Davis, on Friday, April 27. The loss completed Pacific's season as the Tigers fell to 5-16 on the season while the Aggies improved to 13-11 on the year and move on to the quarterfinals where they will take on UC Irvine.
The Tigers fell behind the Aggies early in the day's competition as UC Davis captured the doubles' point to go ahead 1-0 out of the gate. UC Davis took the first two matches in doubles action, 8-4, against the Tigers to take the momentum of the match that they then parlayed into three wins in singles action that secured the match victory. For the Aggies, the wins came at No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6 singles, nullifying three of the Tiger's top four singles players from counting towards recovery.
Tennis Match Results
No. 2 UC Davis vs. No. 7 Pacific
April 27, 2012 at Indian Wells, Calif.
Big West Championships
UC Davis 4, Pacific 0
Doubles Competition
1) Chui/Sanders (UCD) def. Masarova/Hansen (PAC), 8-4
2) Heneghan/Edles (UCD) def. Boncheva/Irvin (PAC), 8-4
3) Zamudio/Koehly (UCD) vs. Te/Suarez (PAC), DNF
Order of Finish: 2,1
Singles Competition
1) Megan Heneghan (UCD) vs. Iveta Masarova (PAC), DNF
2) Dahra Zamudio (UCD) def. Julia Hansen (PAC), 6-0, 6-2
3) Kelly Chui (UCD) vs. Susan Te (PAC), DNF
4) Lauren Curry (UCD) vs. Gergana Boncheva (PAC), DNF
5) Layla Sanders (UCD) def. Sarah Irvin (PAC), 6-1, 6-1
6) Nicole Koehly (UCD) def. Regina Suarez (PAC), 6-4, 6-2
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Diverse arrhythmia phenotypes caused by Mutations of potassium channel (HERG)
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Question: Mutations in the HERG gene are associated with distinct consequences on potassium (IKr) currents demonstrated in heterologous expression systems. Typically mutations causing long QT syndrome (LQT-2) lead to disruption of channel synthesis or defective protein trafficking, whereas few mutations known to cause short-QT syndrome are gain of function mutations. We studied four HERG mutations and one putative polymorphism (R176W), identified in arrhythmia patients to elucidated the biochemical alterations on HERG protein and IKr currents.
Method used: We performed site-directed mutagenesis to introduce the four mutations (cis double mutant V409L_W410C, R752P, T865I, R883Q) into the wild-type HERG cDNA. Western blot analysis was used to analyze the glycosylation patterns. Immunostaining and confocal laser microscopy of transiently transfected COS-7 cells were used to localize the mutated HERG proteins in the different cell compartments. We also tested the effect of lower temperature (27°C) and E4031 on protein trafficking. To analyze currents, we expressed the mutant HERG cRNA in Xenopus oocytes (20-22°C).
Results: Western blot analysis showed mature glycosylation of all altered HERG proteins. Immunofluorescence demonstrated that mutants V409L_W410C, R752P and T865I were trafficking deficient. The regular trafficking of T865I at 37°C to the cell membrane however, could be achieved by incubation with E4031 or coexpression with the WT. The other mutants could be rescued at lower incubation temperatures. In Xenopus oocytes all mutants generated detectable IKr currents. The currents of R176W, R752P and the coexpression of WT with T865I resemble to the WT currents. The ramp currents of R883Q were significantly increased. The double mutant V409L_W410C leads to distinct changes in channel kinetics.
Conclusions: Mutations in HERG are associated with various in-vitro and in-vivo dysfunctions that not only include mechanisms with reduced IKr but also with increased IKr.


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I'm looking for thoughts on some schools I've been considering for a Master's program. I have my BS in Mechanical Engineering and wanted to branch into more of a product design role in the vision and functionality of products as well as how users interact with these products and the aesthetics.
Currently I work as an engineer in a team of 3 at a lighting company. It's given me experience with CAD work, technical skills and design for manufacturing, and working with the designer to create new products.
I've been looking into a mix of design schools, from pure ID to more technical.
If you all had any thoughts about these (strengths, weaknesses, etc) or knew of any other schools to consider, please let me know, thank you!
-SFSU (San Francisco State University), Masters in ID
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Pictured: Niall Janney won the 200 butterfly and 400
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Complete Results
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The Crimson men's swimming and diving team won 13 of 16 events to emerge with a 201-99 victory against crosstown rival Boston University Saturday afternoon at Blodgett Pool. Niall Janney led the Harvard charge with victories in the 200 butterfly and 400 IM, while Robert Newell captured the 100 and 200 backstroke, Mason Brunnick won the 200 and 500 freestyle and Zac Ranta claimed both diving events.
The Crimson, which improved to 6-1 overall on the season, opened the day by taking the 200 medley relay as the foursome of Jordan Diekema, Owen Wurzbacher, Eric Taylor and Will Heyburn swam to victory with a collective time of 1:33.33. Alex Meyer followed by posting the meet's fastest time in the 1,000 freestyle with a mark of 9:18.62. Blake Lewkowitz (9:38.51) and Matthew Kaminske (9:44.32) placed second and third, respectively. Mason Brunnick and Nicholas Tan were 1-2 in the 200 freestyle, as Brunnick grabbed the wall in 1:41.28, followed by Tan in 1:41.49.
Newell picked up Harvard's fourth straight win to open the meet as he swam ahead of the competition in the 100 backstroke, finishing in 51.62. Davidson followed with a victory in the 100 breaststroke (58.24), before Janney led a 1-2-3 placing for Harvard swimmers in the 200 butterfly. Janney won the race in 1:52.48, while Ryan Cutter (1:55.00) and Ross Ford (1:55.35) were close behind.
On the boards, Ranta amassed 331.20 points to win the three-meter diving competition. Ranta also claimed the one-meter board, edging teammate Michael Stanton, 274.50-273.00, for first place. Newell completed his sweep of the backstroke races, taking the 200 with a time of 1:51.04. In the 200 breaststroke, Davidson and Wurzbacher completed the race in less than a second apart, as Davidson won the event in 2:06.13, while Wurzbacher was second in 2:06.90. Brunnick and Meyer placed 1-2 in the 500 freestyle, led by Brunnick's time of 4:32.82. Meyer finished the race in 4:37.42. In the 100 butterfly, Tan posted the fastest time, touching the wall in 50.37, just ahead of Ford (51.57). In Harvard's final win of the afternoon, Janney cruised to a time of 4:04.08 in the 400 IM.
Harvard closes out the regular season with the annual HYP meet against Yale and Princeton. The meet will be held at Princeton's DeNunzio Pool Friday and Saturday, Jan. 29-30. Competition on Friday is set to begin at 6 p.m.
Harvard Tops Boston University, 201-99, on Senior Day
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BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) -- A woman in Bismarck, North Dakota says a boy, who is now chief of police of the Bismarck Police Department, asked her for money more than four decades ago.
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The debt was only for a dollar and Darlene Olmsted never seemed to forget. She would joke about it to her family every time Chief Dan Donlin was on TV.
After 44 years of owing her a dollar, Donlin finally paid her back.
"Paying you back the one dollar you loaned me when I was 10 years old, running around terrorizing your neighborhoods," read Olmsted off a letter Donlin wrote.
She is the mother of three boys who used to ride bikes and play ball over four decades ago with Donlin.
Her son, Mark, told Donlin about the countless times he came up in family conversations because of a debt.
"Decided it was time for me to pay that one dollar debt, so I can save Kent, Monte and Mark the headache of her bringing this up at every family gathering. It was more an act of mercy for Mark and the brothers," said Donlin.
Olmsted clearly remembers the day 44 years ago.
"He was on his bike and he came and he asked if he could have a dollar and I said sure. He took off and that was it. He didn't know why he needed the dollar. He said he probably bought candy," said Olmsted.
But there's another theory.
"Possibly to pay off the neighborhood kid to not beat me up," Olmsted reads off the letter.
Donlin paid her back this year while she was bowling in late October.
"We hugged and I told her why I was there and before I could really get out, she goes, 'This is about the dollar,'" said Donlin.
"He paid me back. Yes, I'll say, PLUS interest," said Olmsted.
Along with the letter and the dollar, she received a small badge and a $20 gift card from Donlin.
After doing the math, Donlin paid her more than double in interest for his debt with the dollar plus the gift card. If a dollar is compounded at 5 percent for 44 years, the total sum owed would be $8.78.
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Gov. Jay Inslee said Thursday that he doesn't consider the extension of temporary taxes _ as proposed by his predecessor _ a tax increase and that the idea is one of many he is open to as the legislative budget process begins.
At his first official news conference as governor, Inslee said that while he's not proposing anything specific, he wants to give the Legislature "room to discuss this potential."
"I don't want to foreclose the possibility of those being on the table for discussion," he said. "I'm not proposing it right now. I think it's something that people are ultimately going to consider."
Last month, former Gov. Chris Gregoire proposed a budget that would extend taxes on beer and business taxes paid by doctors, lawyers, accountants and others.
Inslee, a Democrat, said he's not breaking his campaign promise eschewing taxes because he doesn't consider the extensions new taxes.
"These do not increase taxes," he said. "They do not raise taxes on people over the existing level that they are paying today."
But House Republicans' point person on the budget, Rep. Gary Alexander of Olympia, said his caucus considers extending taxes the same as a tax increase and oppose any move in that direction.
"We're hoping we can reach a budget solution that doesn't require any tax increases and that the governor will support it when we do," he said.
Inslee was sworn in Wednesday. He takes office facing a projected $900 million deficit for the next two-year budget ending in mid-2015.
That doesn't include money lawmakers will need to spend to improve funding for education as directed by the state Supreme Court earlier this year.
House Majority Leader Pat Sullivan, D-Covington, said that considering the large fiscal problem ahead of lawmakers, Inslee's clarified stance on extending temporary taxes "certainly makes it easier, if that's something we can consider as part of a solution."
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Author remembers growing up in a Frank Lloyd Wright house
As fixer-uppers go, the house Kim Bixler moved into with her family in 1977 came with its share of challenges.
The low-slung home had a perpetually leaky roof, gutters that clogged at the mere approach of fall and structural problems that dated almost back to its construction in 1908.
But for Bixler and her parents, those annoyances hardly mattered in the face of the house's virtues. These included the shifting play of sunlight reflected through 453 stained-glass panels and an expansive dining room that was known to inspire gasps from visitors.
One other minor thing: The house happened to be the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, the singular American architect responsible for Buffalo's own Darwin D. Martin House.
Bixler, who was 8 when she moved into the house on East Boulevard in Rochester with her parents and younger brother, will give a reading of her new book, "Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House," in the Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum at 11 a.m. Saturday. Those who attend the reading will have a chance to preview the soon-to-be-completed construction of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed filling station exhibit in the museum.
In a phone interview from her home in Manhattan Beach, Calif., near Los Angeles, Bixler reflected on the unusual surroundings of her particularly charmed childhood.
"Right off the bat, I knew that we had something special in our house. I mean, not very often are you sitting in your house and every car that drives by goes slowly past your house, or that you have people sketching your house," she said. "My parents asked us to give tours starting when I was 8. So I would be talking to architects about Frank Lloyd Wright's use of the horizontal line and how the house hugged the prairie. You kind of feel this inflated sense of importance at that age."
Before long, young Bixler had her spiel memorized, complete with a joke about always having to make sure her bed was made in case visitors showed up. Her memories of that time are set down in her book, which doubles as a memoir of her time in the house and an exhaustive architectural history that traces the story of the house back to its original owners, Edward E. Boynton and his daughter Beulah.
The Boynton House, which has since been purchased by a wealthy couple and restored to its former glory at great expense, has been through its share of questionable tweaks and renovations over the past century. Bixler recalled some of the more radical ones:
"One of the owners who lived there for about 25 years, she decided to paint a lot of the wood. And then the next owner that was right before them wallpapered a lot," she said. "One of the women said, 'Oh I really want this room to match my poodle.' So she literally painted the living room poodle-gray, and even the fireplace she painted. I mean, to paint these bricks?"
Bixler's father, an executive at Xerox, shared a great love of the house with her mother, a jewelry artist. Together, they poured untold sums of money into repairs at the house and eventually spent almost as much money to fix Wright's leaky, impractical roof as they had spent on the house itself.
"They were just captivated by the design. There's no flaw that really could have been there that would have stopped them from buying that house," said Bixler, whose previous books include "365 Great Things About Atlanta," "The Cigar Book" and "My Twin, My Friend."
Buffalo architecture lovers who have visited Wright's more ambitious and expensive Darwin D. Martin House, built from 1903 to 1905, will recognize many of the design elements in his later Boynton House. There are the same hidden downspouts, the same sense of interior openness and warmth, the same attempt to blur the boundaries between inside and out.
University at Buffalo professor Jack Quinan, a Frank Lloyd Wright expert who serves as the senior curator at the Martin House, remembers visiting the Boynton House with his architecture students and getting a tour from Bixler, who was then just 11 years old. Though the two houses share the same prairie style, he said, their orientation to the street is very different as are the building materials Wright used.
Even so, the architect's desire to stoke the curiosity of passers-by is at work in both buildings.
"In both cases, there's a ploy, you might say, of Wright's," Quinan said. "He wants you to sort of absorb the house, he wants to engage you with the house, so he doesn't show you how to get in. The Martin House, from the sidewalk in is not a straight line. It goes down alongside the driveway, then you turn right, then you climb some stairs, then you turn left. And even the entrance itself is buried in shadow. In the case of Boynton, there's no apparent entrance."
And it's that sense of mystery mixed with beauty and of living in a place that is an artwork as much as a functional living space, that sits at the heart of Bixler's book. Living in the Boynton House, she said, has had an indelible effect on her adult life.
"I believe that you should have incredible pride of where you live," she said, "and I do think that you should be surrounded by beauty."
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. and DUBLIN, Ireland, Jan. 8, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerner (Nasdaq:CERN), a global innovator in electronic health record (EHR) and research technology, and ICON plc, a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, have announced an agreement that will provide pharmaceutical and device sponsors with late phase research technology to streamline the collection of information related to the safety, effectiveness and value of their medical products.
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May 21, 2007
Lipscomb University softball coach Kristin Peck has announced the signing of outfielder Mackenzie Tucker from Puyallup, Wash.
Tucker lettered three seasons as the starting center fielder at Gov. John R. Rogers High School. She was named to the 2007 South Puget Sound League's Senior All-Star Team. She was also a first team selection on the All-South Puget Sound League Team. She batted .467 her senior season with a .618 on-base percentage and a .622 slugging percentage.
In 2006 Tucker was second team selection on the All-South Puget Sound League Team. She was also named the "Most Inspirational" player on her team.
In 2005 she was also a second team pick for the All-South Puget Sound League Team.
Tucker won the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association Academic Award in 2005, 2006 and 2007.
Tucker has also been active as a club team player. She is playing this year for the Washington Heat 18A. In 2006 she played for the Washington LadyHawks 18A, which won the Seattle/Tacoma Metro Championship which qualified the team for the ASA-18A Nationals in Owensboro, Ky.
In 2004 and 2005 Tucker played for the MsStix 16A. She served as co-captain in 2005.
She is the daughter of Kim Kennedy-Tucker and Mark Tucker, She has one brother, Eric, 21.


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We already have a default that is restricted to the request reply interaction - defaulting of the [reply endpoint] property. We went in some detail over why that should be the case at the f2f. This issue is just the completion of that discussion IMO. MOre explicitly, the motivation of the issue is, again, the observation that a default which does not capture a sufficiently common use case is unhelpful and possibly prone to error. The anonymous URI only makes sense in very specific situations, when the transport binding is such that an implicit channel is available. This is the case in a synchronous request reply, and may be the case in other situations we don't know about. An unqualified default for the destination seems to assume that most of the times such an implicit channel available, which is just not the case. The defaulting of properties to the anonymous URI or to EPRs with an anonymous address was intended to optimize the SOAP/HTTP request response case. For some perverse reason we've found ourselves with those defaults extended to every message and every binding w/o really knowing what purpose that extension would serve. Finally, I can imagine scenarios where an anonymous destination becomes meaningful based on the configuration of the binding and supporting infrastructure - MOM systems come to mind. So I don't think we need to be unnecessarily restrictive and try to prevent the use of anonymous addresses in the destination property altogether. Paco Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun. To: Francisco Curbera/Watson/IBM@IBMUS COM> cc: Mark Nottingham <firstname.lastname@example.com>, WS-Addressing <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Sent by: email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: New issue: Default value of To property OM 01/24/2006 11:07 AM I think it complicates things to have a default in some circumstances and not others. Provided the default value is always the same (anonymous in our case), it is easy to formulate the value of MAPs and check the validity of an inbound message regardless of whether the message is a request, response, notification, fault or some other classification that we haven't yet come up with. If we start adding provisos to the defaulting rules then things just get more complex and we'll end up introducing edge cases etc. To be honest I'm not clear what problem you are trying to solve, why is it better to have an explicit <wsa:To>http://.../../anonymous</ wsa:To> in the message than an implicit default one ? FWIW, I can see that having an anonymous wsa:To in a request message might cause some implementations difficulties, but changing the defaulting rules won't fix this problem (you could still get an explicit anonymous to) and as I outlined in my previous mail its unlikely to occur in the first place. If an anonymous wsa:To in request messages is the problem you are trying to attack then I think it would be much more effective to work on that directly rather than complicating the defaulting rules. Marc. On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Francisco Curbera wrote: > Hi Marc, > > You are taking the sender's view only; there is also the receiver's > view, > who may or may not have access to the EPR the sender used. In any > case, it > is clear that any default works as long as it is not ambiguous. > What I am > arguing is that a default only makes sense when it cover (and maybe > helps > optimize) a common case. It can certainly be argued that for > synchronous > request response interactions it makes sense to default the To of > the reply > message to anonymous. Arguing that that is also the case for all > other uses > of WSA is to take a very narrow perspective IMO - particularly > since one of > WSA's major contributions is to enable interoperable asynchronous > messaging over different interaction patterns. > > We essentially went through a similar argument when we recognized that > defaulting the [reply endpoint] to an EPR with an anonymous address > makes > sense only in the context of Section 3.4 - Formulating a Reply > Message. I > think we just need to finish the job and scope the defaulting of the > [destination] property to anonymous to the case of reply messages > as well. > > Paco > > > > > > Marc Hadley > <email@example.com> To: > Francisco Curbera/Watson/IBM@IBMUS > Sent by: cc: > Mark Nottingham <email@example.com>, WS-Addressing > public-ws-addressing-req <public-ws- > email@example.com> > firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: Re: > New issue: Default value of To property > > > 01/23/2006 10:50 AM > > > > > > I don't think we need to special-case things as you suggest since the > rules for sending a message[1] already require the wsa:To to have the > same address as that contained in the EPR to which the message is > sent. Therefore the only time the wsa:To value can be defaulted is > when the EPR to which the message is sent has an 'anonymous' address > and I don't see that happening regularly with request messages > because, if it did, you wouldn't know where to send then. > > Marc. > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2004/ws/addressing/ws-addr- > core.html?content-type=text/html;%20charset=utf-8#sendmsgepr > > > On Jan 20, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Francisco Curbera wrote: > >> >> Can I please add this new CR issue against the WS-Addressing core >> spec. >> >> The spec currently defaults the value of the To property to anonymous >> (Core, 3.2); the goal of this decision was to optimize the request >> reply >> synchronous interaction. However, as written in Section 3.2 this >> applies to >> arbitrary messages. Just as in the case of ReplyTo, addressed in >> CR13, I >> propose the defaulting of To to anonymous be moved to Section 3.4 and >> limited to request reply interactions. >> >> Paco >> >> > > --- > Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com> > Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems. > > > > > > #### smime.p7s has been removed from this note on January 24, 2006 by > Francisco Curbera > <smime.p7s> --- Marc Hadley <marc.hadley at sun.com> Business Alliances, CTO Office, Sun Microsystems. #### smime.p7s has been removed from this note on January 24, 2006 by Francisco Curbera
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A federal grand jury in Tampa has indicted the onetime Lakeland City Commission candidate for dealings while living here.
LAKELAND | James Goetz, a former Lakeland City Commission candidate who weaved a convoluted web of financial dealings on the Internet, now is charged with fraud.
Goetz was arrested last week in Connecticut, a spokeswoman for the United States Attorney's Office in Tampa said Thursday. Federal prosecutors accuse him of fraudulently obtaining at least $379,000 from clients of the many companies he set up.
Goetz, 32, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Tampa on 17 counts of fraud, all for dealings while he lived in Lakeland, the indictment says. One count is for mail fraud, and the other 16 are for wire fraud.
At least one of the victims was an unnamed person in Miami who gave Goetz a $160,000 check with an expectation of making 5 percent interest a month for four months, according to the indictment.
If convicted, Goetz could face a maximum of 20 years in federal prison for each count in the indictment, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Victims were defrauded in a scheme "to obtain money from investors and other individuals and entities by means of false and fraudulent pretenses …" the indictment said. Some of it was accomplished through investment opportunity seminars Goetz led.
Goetz was a candidate for the City Commission in 2009. But he dropped out of the race after Ledger articles about a questionable charity he said he ran, unpaid taxes and murky financial dealings.
Goetz could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Amy Filjones, a law enforcement coordination specialist for the U.S. Attorney's Office, said Goetz was released on $50,000 bail. She said he is scheduled to make a first appearance in U.S. District Court in Tampa on Wednesday.
Goetz's home at 3038 Cleveland Heights Blvd. was raided in late 2009 by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Lakeland police, the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and the U.S. Postal Service. Investigators left with five cardboard boxes of material from inside the home.
Goetz and his family left their Lakeland home in late 2009 or early 2010.
The indictment said Goetz established two financial services companies, Grileck International and Sunshine Financial Group, that were used in the scheme and said he used at least three fake identities, Gabriel Espinosa, Alexander Sith and Egosum Mihi.
Filjones said she could not divulge whether anyone other than Goetz is a target of the investigation.
When interviewed by The Ledger in the fall of 2009, Goetz said he made a living with a variety of ventures. Among those was a health program called the Essential Spine. He said it involved using essential oils to help relieve back and other pain. He sold it through a website. He also said he traded stocks and currency in foreign markets.
The newspaper also reported Goetz's involvement with Grileck International, which he described then as a small, off-shore operation that worked like a savings and loan. He said his work was similar to being a loan officer. It also involved giving motivational talks and educating people on how to handle money.
In September 2009, The Ledger reported Goetz claimed a questionable charitable tax exemption on his home. He said he was entitled to the property tax exemption because he used it to operate a charity that helped homeless people and others, such as hurricane victims.
But he wound up paying $16,445 in back property taxes on the house, dating to 2006.
Goetz started a series of unprecedented events when he withdrew from the November 2009 election against City Commissioner Edie Yates.
A subsequent election was scheduled for December, but it, too, was canceled when two opponents dropped out. The third attempt at an election took place Jan. 26, and Yates finally was re-elected.
The city has since changed its rules, adopting one against so-called "serial elections." Now, no more than two attempts for any election seat can be held without producing a winner.
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MSN.com's Obsessed: Harry Potter vs Twilight featuring yours truly!
Dear LTT-ers, and Twilight fans alike,
Last month I was asked to be interviewed as a Twilight "Expert" (ha!) in a web series called Obsessed by comedian Kevin Avery. The series was going to compare the Twilight and Harry Potter fandoms. I'm sure you can guess that I thought it was going to be a Colbert Report type thing where Twilighters were made fun of they went for the easy jokes instead of really getting to know a bit more about the Twilight fandom. BUUUTTT that was not the case at all, Kevin was awesome and totally got the fun, the crazy and the deep stuff about Twilight. I had a blast letting him in on the inner workings of the Twidom and sharing a little bit of why we love Twilight so much even when it doesn't make sense! The video also features our good pal AshleyFrag rocking it for all the fans out there against some crazy Harry Potter competition and the gals from the Twilight book club in LA! We both had a ton of fun I don't know how they edited it all down to only 3 minutes! Let's start a petition for an outtakes reel!
Now embedded! They heard our cries! Or watch HERE
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Consensus Report
Improving Health in the United States: The Role of Health Impact Assessment (2011)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
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Significant improvements in American's health will only occur if health impacts are considered when developing policies, programs, plans, and projects, particularly in sectors that historically have been viewed as unrelated to health, such as transportation, education, agriculture, and housing. Health impact assessment has arisen as an especially promising way to factor health considerations into the decision-making process. It is essentially a structured process that uses scientific data, professional expertise, and stakeholder input to identify and evaluate the public-health consequences of proposals and suggests actions that could be taken to minimize adverse health effects and optimize beneficial ones. This report discusses the need for health-informed decision-making, reviews the current practice of health impact assessment, and provides a framework, terminology, and guidance for improving the assessment of health impacts in the United States.
Key Messages
- A growing body of research indicates that health is determined by many factors that shape the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. For example, public health has been linked to housing policies that determine the quality and location of housing developments, to agricultural policies that influence the availability of healthy food, to urban planning policies that determine land use and street connectivity, to transportation policies that affect the availability of public transportation, and to economic-development policies that affect the location of businesses and industry.
- Health impact assessment is a tool that can help decision-makers factor health considerations into policy. It is applicable to a broad array of decisions, considers adverse and beneficial effects, can incorporate various types of evidence into the analysis, engage communities and stakeholders in a deliberative process, and offer practical recommendations to improve health.
- The report's authoring committee reviewed definitions, practice, published guidance, and peer-reviewed literature on the topic of health impact assessment and developed a six-step framework that organizes and describes the elements of health impact assessment.
- Several challenges may impede the successful emergence, development, and practice of health impact assessment. These challenges include defining health and the boundaries for health impact assessment; and balancing the need to provide timely, valid information with the realities of varying data quality; producing quantitative estimates of health effects, synthesizing conclusions on dissimilar health effects; engaging stakeholders; ensuring the quality and credibility of health impact assessment; and managing expectations. The committee provided suggestions for addressing these issues.
- Substantial improvements in public health will require a focused effort to recognize and address the health consequences of decisions at all levels and in all sectors of government. International experience and the limited (but growing) experience in the United States provide important clues as to what is needed most to advance health impact assessment.
- Providing education and compelling examples of the health implications of decisions would help raise awareness of the many factors that affect health, the importance of considering them in all decision-making, and the role that health impact assessment can play in the decision-making process.
- Substantial interagency collaboration at the local, state, and federal levels is necessary to conduct health impact assessment, especially those of policies, programs, plans, and projects in nonhealth sectors. Furthermore, systematic use of health impact assessment will depend on the full implementation of current requirements in existing laws—such as the National Environmental Policy Act—and, in certain cases, the adoption of policies and legal mandates to integrate health considerations into decision-making.
- Because conducting assessments will require the investment of public and private resources, research that documents the effectiveness of health impact assessment at influencing the decision-making process and promoting public health would help to support the field. Moreover, the quality of health impact assessment could be substantially improved with better evidence on the relationship of "distal" factors to health outcomes.
- Despite acknowledging the need for scholarship in health impact assessment, the committee concluded that health impact assessment is valuable even with a lack of perfect forecasting data and tools because it is better to consider potential health risk and benefits than to ignore them routinely.


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Malaria No More, a public-private partnership Case helped start in 2006 to end malaria deaths in Africa by 2015, has distributed mosquito nets to 5.4 million people.


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JVC DLA-HD750 Front Projector
The Short Form
|$7,999 / JVC.com
|The DLA-HD750 delivers stunning performance with no flaws worth mentioning. And the fact that it manages this after only a few minutes of adjustment makes it one of the finest video displays we've ever tested.
|• Excellent contrast without auto iris • Excellent picture without fussy calibration • Excellent setup flexibility without annoying limitations
|• Non-excellent remote without a THX button or discrete input selectors.
Key Features
|• 1080p resolution • 2x zoom lens • Accepts 1080p/24 input signals • Motorized zoom, focus, and lens shift • Anamorphic zoom mode for sled-mounted constant-height lenses • Automatic lens cover • Inputs: 2 HDMI, VGA, component-, composite-, and S-video: RS 232C • 6 5/8 x 18 7/8 x 14 3/8in, 24 1/4 pounds
People around the world admire the civility of the Japanese. When others might say, "You're totally wrong!," in the Land of the Rising Sun, they generally state, "That is not the case." When the rest of the world would scream, "No way in hell!," the Japanese calmly reply, "We will study your proposal." That's why I was so shocked to read JVC's promotional materials for its new DLA-HD750 projector.
On the company's Web page, it says, "There is neither an iris mechanism nor a compromise in the DLA-HD750 projector." In other words, every projector that uses auto iris--including Sony's identically priced VPL-VW70--is compromised and therefore inferior. If a well-mannered Japanese company like JVC comes out swinging like this, there must be something special lurking inside the DLA-HD750's elegant chassis.
And there is. JVC spent more than a decade refining its D-ILA projection technology, otherwise known by the generic name LCoS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon). That's more experience than any competitor can boast. So when JVC claims the DLA-HD750 has "the industry's highest native contrast ratio," one is duty-bound to investigate rather than scream, "No way in hell!"
The DLA-HD750 is one of a mere handful of video projectors to earn the THX certification. (The only other brands boasting this status are Runco and the moribund Vidikron.) The THX-certification process involves an evaluation comparable to the one we at Sound & Vision perform. It checks for adherence to standards set by such governing bodies as the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), and the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA). It also incorporates several proprietary test patterns developed by THX.
All THX-certified projectors offer a THX Movie mode, which basically ensures that such settings as color temperature and gamma are correct. It also locks you out of any adjustments that might mess up the pictures. THX says all projectors it certifies must have a THX-mode button on the remote, but I must point out that with the DLA-HD750, that's not the case: You have to go through the onscreen menu to get into THX mode. Strangely, though, JVC includes dedicated buttons for every other picture preset, including the ghastly-looking Dynamic mode.
SETUP I set up the DLA-HD750 with my usual 72-inch wide, 16:9 Stewart Filmscreen StudioTek screen, and also tried it on a 106-inch wide, 2.35:1 Da-Lite JKP Affinity screen with a Panamorph UH480 anamorphic lens. The DLA-HD750's lens makes basic setup a snap. Everything's motorized, including focus, zoom, and lens-shift. With a wide 2x zoom range and a vertical lens-shift range of 80%, you can place this projector almost anywhere that's convenient and still get a great picture. Were I a professional home theater designer, this flexibility alone would be enough to sell me on the DLA-750HD.
Once the projector warmed up, I switched immediately to the THX mode to find out if it really does deliver the great out-of-the-box picture it promises. After mere minutes of first setting the brightness, contrast, color and hue, and manually tuning the iris down some to mute the 200-watt bulb's powerful output, I confirmed that color tracking in the THX mode was practically perfect, averaging 6,437 kelvins. That's only a hair off of the 6,500-K standard. I was able to get only a smidgen closer (an average of 6,547 K) by calibrating the projector myself.
But the color looked somewhat under saturated in THX mode. I found when I measured the color decoder performance that either red or green was under saturated, depending on the input selected. This error can be corrected using the projector's color-management controls...except that you're locked out of those controls in THX mode. This limitation might make the projector idiot-proof, but it also prevents it from achieving true perfection in THX mode. My best solution was to raise the color control in the menu by a couple of notches, which didn't look quite right on color-bar test patterns but definitely looked better with movies.
The color-management controls allow precise tuning of all six primary/secondary colors, but I didn't need these since all of the color points conformed almost perfectly to the SMPTE HD standard. The gamma-adjustment menu is similarly flexible--and unneeded. You can set gamma by number or tune it in 10 IRE steps. You can even set it separately for red, green, and blue. But I found that the Normal factory preset looked great. All of these functions were easy to access through the projector's remote and onscreen menus. The remote also has handy dedicated buttons for many picture adjustments, including gamma, color temperature and iris.


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Back and Forth: Eight Memorable Exhibition UpsetsPosted by Judson Harten on November 4th, 2014
Each week, RTC columnist Judson Harten will profile some of the week's biggest upcoming games by taking a look back at some relevant history relating to the match-ups. This is Back And Forth.
Exhibitions are a tease, really. College basketball fans wait with great anticipation for the first practices of the season, sure, but what they really want are games. Live game action… that's what counts. Exhibitions don't really provide the same juice. But as we wait for games that count to get started, two things are almost certain:
- Your team is "coming along well" this season, per every team's coach.
- Exhibition games are all we have to go on until the season actually tips off in about 10 days.
Most of the time, the games aren't even close. The completely outmatched D-II/D-III/NAIA team that took the big paycheck to come get its whoopin' is just a preseason sacrificial lamb for most of the elite programs. Sometimes the games are a bit closer than anticipated because it obvious that the coaching staff wants to test some new wrinkles in their game plan — strategies, lineups, etc. Rarely do these teams suffer losses, but they do pop up from time to time. This week Back And Forth takes a look at some of the few exhibition upsets in recent years, and what, if anything, they meant for the season ahead.
1. November 3, 2009: LeMoyne 82, #25 Syracuse 79
THE SKINNY: When I set out to find some of the better exhibition upsets of recent years, this was the first one that I found in the search engines and websites I checked. Christopher Johnson's three-pointer with 8.3 seconds left pushed the Division II Dolphins past the Orange. A newly-eligible Wes Johnson – in his lone season playing for coach Jim Boeheim – finished with a game-high 34 points in the loss. Read the rest of this entry »


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By his late 30s, Eli Sapharti weighed almost 300 pounds. Every day, he smoked two packs of cigarettes, drank two liters of soda and "ate like crap."
He always resolved to get fit, joining gyms and working out a few times. But then he'd quit because his goals seemed unachievable. Finally, five years ago, he decided to simply cut out soda and walk 15 minutes a day.
Through the years, Sapharti intensified his workouts and finetuned his diet. He lost 110 pounds, and today runs half-marathons. He's been profiled in People magazine and on "Good Morning America," and provides fitness tips at FatBoyFitMan.com.
"I suggest you take weight loss very slowly and review it every week," he says. "Don't set a goal of 'I need to lose 50 pounds by June.' Focus on the week at hand and 'This is what I need to do this week.'
"At the end of the week, congratulate yourself and then move to the next week."
Q: Why do you keep fit?
A: Five years ago, I was far from even thinking to be fit. I weighed almost 300 pounds. Turned my life around at age 38. Started making small changes. I've seen what it's done physically and mentally and what it's done to others to feel good and look good, especially people in the shoes I was in.
I had high blood pressure and was pre-diabetic. And I suffered with severe panic disorder. I can't blame that on obesity, but the truth is after I got fit physically, my mind got fit too. Working out is now my hobby. I have friends who live and die for golf. I live and die for running and to weight train.
Q: How did you become obese?
A: As a child from around third grade, I was always overweight, a fat boy. Never excelled at sports. When I hit puberty in the summer of ninth grade, I went from 5'7" to 5'11", and that growth spurt helped me to get skinny.
I was skinny till I got married at 21 and gained 20 pounds the first year, and then kept gaining. I ate like crap. I was eating ridiculous — a lot of pasta, cheeses, fast food, chips, ice cream, two liters of regular, full-sugared soda a day. But I can't blame the ex-wife because she was a good cook. You just lose a little time and motivation [to be fit while having a family].
Q: What finally pushed you to get fit?
A: In the Miami airport, for some odd reason, a girl told me, "You're really good looking for a big guy." Instead of taking that as a compliment, I heard, "You're fat." And I could barely fit in the seat on the airplane that day. Almost needed to ask for a seat belt extension. That was the breaking point.
I had failed losing weight so many times after joining gyms for New Year's resolutions. Obviously I gained it all back and more. I realized that didn't work. I had to choose something that works for the rest of my life. "I can walk," I thought, so 15 minutes of walking daily popped into my mind. That's how I started.
Q: What's your workout routine?
A: It varies, but I take only one full day off per week, not even playing football with the kids.
Four days a week I do weight lifting and I superset. So let's say I do chest and bi's (biceps), I'll go from bench press to arm curls and then rest 30 seconds. And then I'll do it again, three or four sets. I'll do about four different exercises per body part. I'll do chest and bi's one day, back and shoulders another, and triceps the third day. The fourth day varies, but I don't do legs.
After I weight train, I either fast walk on a treadmill at a high incline for 30 to 40 minutes or go on a step mill where I'll do the fat-burner setting 30 minutes.
The other two days are my run days. My long run is 8 to 9 miles once a week. And then 5 to 7 miles on the other day.
Q: Do you still smoke, or have any other health vices?
A: I used to smoke two packs a day until seven years ago.
Q: What's your typical daily diet?
A: In the morning, I have oatmeal with protein powder and blueberries or strawberries, with a cup of coffee. I eat about every three hours. For a snack, nonfat plain Greek yogurt with apple or blueberries. Or a protein bar.
Lunch is usually grilled chicken, brown rice, black beans and a salad. Then another snack like the first.
Dinner is usually some type of chicken or meat, like steak once a week. Grilled chicken or rotisserie chicken, sweet potato or brown rice, or a really big salad with chickpeas, spinach and romaine lettuce. And a little protein like feta or goat cheese.
Q: Ever cheat from your diet?
A: Weekends. I'm a red wine drinker. I like ice cream. That's my kryptonite!
Q: What do you drink?
A: A gallon of water a day. No soda. I have post-workout a protein shake.
Q: Any vitamins or other supplements?
A: I take CLA, a fatty acid that helps burn fat. I also take vitamin D, green tea extract, and magnesium/calcium/zinc in one tablet.
Eli Sapharti
Age: 43
City of residence: Parkland
Height/Weight: 6 feet, 1 inch; 180 pounds
Occupation: Motivational speaker, weight-loss coach


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2012 12:28 UTC
"Google's quest to guess what we want before we want it has produced an unusual side effect: a disparity in the results the company presents about the presidential candidates. A Wall Street Journal examination found that the search engine often customizes the results of people who have recently searched for 'Obama' - but not those who have recently searched for 'Romney'." A confirmation bias' wet dream, this. The confirmation bias is already one of the root psychological causes of much of the problems in the world as it is - we really shouldn't have technology companies make it worse. Technology - and more specifically, the internet - should fight this bias, not affirm it.
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RE[4]: The article
by Alfman on Tue 6th Nov 2012 17:11 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: The article"
Thom Holwerda,
"That's why I used a Google link. Should be accessible through that, right?"
Doesn't work for me. I disabled all blockers and still a no go. I tried to do the search directly from google, still not accessible.
I know what your talking about though, some news sites had a policy in place to enable one person to read the article from search engines, but when he'd send the link to others they'd have to pay.
Edit: To clarify, a paragraph excerpt is readable, but there's a link about becoming a subscriber to continue reading. Clicking that link shows a page that asks the user to become a 3 month subscriber for $22.
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What if Team Fortress 2 was a cartoon by the Warners? This cartoon, done by Andrew Kepple, is sheer brilliance if you're a gamer, and even includes an obligatory Yakkity Sax piece. See how many game references you can find!
I've always been a fan of Kepple's work (since his days doing animutation way back when!) and I've found his sense of art and humor is simply awesome. (This is the best I can do: I used to know where his home page was once upon a time). Give his other stuff a watch if you like this. It'll while the day away!
[Link: Spy vs Pyro via Kotaku]


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