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HARTSVILLE, S.C., May 05, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Talley Metals Technology Inc. today announced that it will increase base prices an average of 5 percent on all stainless steel products. The increases will be effective for orders placed on or after June 1, 2010 and are due to inflationary pressures and higher demand for its products. Additionally, Talley said all applicable surcharges will remain in effect.
Talley Metals, a wholly owned subsidiary of Carpenter Technology Corporation (NYSE:CRS), produces and distributes stainless steel bar and wire. Information about Talley Metals can be found on the Internet at http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cartech.com&esheet=6278966&lan=en_US&anchor=www.cartech.com&index=1&md5=c32d7a355f52bbef0b6a12314bf55a98.
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Bankruptcy filings fell to the lowest in five years last month and will probably continue to drop, based on reports from Epiq Systems, Moody's Investors Service and Sageworks.
The 78,500 bankruptcies of all types in January were 15 percent fewer on a daily basis than in the same month in 2012, according to data compiled by Epiq from court records.
Business bankruptcies shrank even more. January's 3,700 commercial filings were down about 26 percent from a year earlier, to the fewest in almost six years, Epiq reported.
The 674 January Chapter 11 filings, in which larger companies and formerly wealthy individuals seek to reorganize or sell assets, were the fewest since April 2008.
The January filings continued a pattern established last year, when total bankruptcies declined 14 percent from 2011.
States with the most filings per capita were Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Nevada fell out of the top three.
Statistics indicate there will be no increase in business bankruptcies in coming months. Even among junk-rated companies with the weakest liquidity, Moody's reported that companies with little cash numbered the fewest in 10 years.
The default rate for junk-rated companies ended the fourth quarter at 3.2 percent, according to Moody's, down from 3.6 percent when the third quarter ended. Moody's predicts the rate will decline to 3 percent by year's end, compared with the 4.5 percent average since 1993 and the 14 percent peak in 2009.
For smaller, closely held companies, fewer bankruptcies are in the future. The predicted default rate this year for all industries is 4.4 percent, compared with 4.5 percent last year, according to a study of 6,600 businesses by Sageworks, a provider of private-company financial information.
Bankruptcies declined in all 50 states last year to a total of about 1.19 million from 1.38 million in 2011. The 2011 bankruptcies represented a 12 percent decline from the 1.56 million in 2010, the most since the record of 2.1 million set in 2005. That year, in the two weeks before bankruptcy laws tightened, 630,000 American sought bankruptcy protection.

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It is certain: For the film, its director and its star, the question of nominations ceased to be an issue the moment it screened last month at the New York Film Festival. What's left for history to decide: Will Daniel Day-Lewis win a third Oscar as a lead actor? And can Steven Spielberg make it an Oscar hat trick for directing? Spielberg's energetic work in "Lincoln" isn't showy. It's almost invisible, in fact, which serves the story but might not make him a favorite to win here. Day-Lewis disappeared too, becoming Lincoln in a way that stood as a complete, convincing creation.
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Last week, I saw the future of flipping hamburgers – and most every other type of fast food. It was at a restaurant called Eatsa at 1626 K Street in Washington, D.C.
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Tragically, in the first three months of this year, South Carolina has lost 40 citizens to fire-related incidents. This nearly doubles the five-year average of 22 fire fatalities during the same three-month period.
As the newly appointed state fire marshal, my first priority is identifying the contributing factors leading to these deaths and utilizing the resources of South Carolina to keep this number from continuing to rise. We cannot bring back the lives lost, but through state, local, private, and public partnerships we can do a lot to prevent future loss.
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What are they not telling us? A lot, actually.
I have a lot to say against Democrats. They are on the wrong side of any objective truth. They have their own truths that I reject.
I also have a lot to say about Republicans. They have some of their own truths also. Republicans' new motto seems to be "Vote for us because we are not as bad as they are."
There is no salvation in any political party. America is in a mess today, and it is getting messier each day.
Last month, President Trump visited Charleston's Boeing plant and proclaimed the "America First" policy that has been one of his constant themes.
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Where does your tax money go? In most instances it supports direct government activities such as schools, police, housing, public health and the like.
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This is my response to the columns by Jeremy Miller and Michael Jedson in Wednesday's paper, which criticized Dr. Brooks Walker's support for President Trump.
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Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 13:52
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Custom Puppies website -puptrix.org
I have started a website (still configuring) with high bandwidth, high availablity, forums dedicated to customized Puppy versions. I hope to make an on line configurable custom puppies for those wishing to use the advances made over the last months with the methods of branding, wallpapers, etc. Like you have for cellphones. A cross between distrowatch and adopt a pet.
I will upload the numerous custom versions if those owner do not object.
www.puptrix.org new dog new trixs
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Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 14:16
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This might be useful
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YinYana AI Buddhism
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Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 15:21
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Great - i think rxlinux is doing what you described, though help for downloaders seem minimal.
How about something that gives you custom image.gz and usr*.fs which you put in hard disk then use a standard boot CD to get the system working?
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Who's authoring this ?
You or Barry ?
I'm confused
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Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 18:21
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Cool! I sure wouldn't mind if you hosted mine. I have the space for it at my site, but from what I hear it isn't the fastest. So, if you want to host it, go ahead.
Actually, I just logged into my site and discovered that I've already used 133.01% (32.47 GB of 24.41 GB) of my bandwidth. I had no idea Pizzapup would use
much bandwidth. I'm not sure what my host's policies are on bandwidth, but I guess I'm about to find out
At least I know they don't stop access to the site.
Hmmm... I seem to be using 200mb of space, to. That's strange. Pizzapup is only 70, and I know I don't have 140mb of other stuff. I'm going to have to look into this.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Joined: 09 May 2005
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Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 19:10
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Ted Dog,
That's great!
The front page of www.pupweb.org has links to the Puppy sites, our
"puppy web", so I will add yours.
...the web is looking very impressive!
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Posted: Fri 28 Oct 2005, 19:56
Post subject: new playing with new puppy.
your Pup barks
about 2am all is quiet all puppies are sleeping except for the electronic version. When It let out a bark, my real dogs go nutts, thanks, It was fun to have them try to find the barking. I'll be uploading your PizzaPup tonight I've got 4GB storage and 1 TeraB monthly bandwidth alotted, lets ROCK.
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Thanks a bunch.
As for the barking, that was actually Barry's idea, and all Puppy's have it in them, but it is disabled in /etc/profile. I guess it caused problems with some systems that didn't have sound cards, so it got commented out. It's near the bottom, a line like "#playtcl /usr/share/audi/2barks.au &" or something. I missed it, so I re-enabled it.
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Location: Heart of Texas
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 01:38
Post subject: PizzaPup iso is being uploaded as I type
The first custom iso is being uploaded. The bare minumn site is up. The links will be cleared up after all is uploaded. I am going to look for ways to move files to the site, download is fast on cable modem, upload not so fast. When I worked for a ISP we would telnet into our remote servers and move thangs over the backbone in seconds. I think there is a way to use PHP to do something like that since telnet timed out.
I have already hacked my new DevonIT NTA puppy adding a 1G compact flash. Hee Hee Hee.... The boot process can be improved. They setup a 64M of video memory which took away to much RAM the changed to 16M looks just as good. The main logo for my site was constructed and uploaded from the silent puppy.
Multitasking is fun 4 computers all running Puppy linux. I need more plugs!!! and ports in my router.
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Puppy Master
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Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 02:02
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if you have ssh access to your server, you could ssh in and use wget to download files directly to your server
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Location: Knoxville, TN, USA
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 10:45
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Cool. I don't know if you just haven't gotten to it yet, but you should upload the md5 checksum too so people can make sure it downloaded correctly. Thanks. Now I'm going to go change my links to point to that so my bandwidth for next month wont get eaten too.
Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib
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Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 11:34
Post subject: Hosting of non-offical releases
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Who's authoring this ?
You or Barry ?
I'm confused
I noticed a pending confusion between the many offsprings and the standard puppy release on this forum. Authors of the offspring puppies, such as Pizzasgood's PizzaPup, remain as I downloaded them. The puptrix site itself, I'll manage. The main catacories of puptrix forum will be managed by me and the author of named puppy ofspring. I'll basically edit out spam, extreme flames and way offtopic posts. Everything would be editable by the author of the custom puppy under his or her forum area.
I will look for new custom versions on the annoucement in this forum. This should allow the main site pupweb to refocus on the offical releases. That would make it easier for the flood of newcommers to puppy linux that I expect will be just a release or two away.
It will also expand the use of puppy linux in general, since talented customizers which may not have the resources to support the distribution will have a way to show off their work, and a forum to help fix their fleas (bugs). I will have my own custom versions as well.
As things progress in the customization area of puppy linux I will expand the use of the site to online customization with downloadable stuff (for nominal fee if needed to fund bandwidth) I hope to supply iso's for free.
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Sounds fun!
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Nathan F
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Location: Wadsworth, OH (occasionally home)
Posted: Sat 29 Oct 2005, 21:31
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Ted Dog-
This is fantastic news!!!!!!!!
Could you mirror my next Grafpup iso? Probably less than a week away now. I've got a website complete with forum in the works but it would be fantastic to have another download location.
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Location: Heart of Texas
Posted: Sun 30 Oct 2005, 00:00
Post subject: You Bet! looking forward to the release
That is part of the plan. Puppies with new tricks Pup-Trix. Yours could be the pup of the week
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I'm a newbie to Kurobox Pro, little experienced in Linux. I followed this guide and was able to install the Armel Debian. I don't have a serial port yet and manipulated the environment variables using nvram command. I now want to have the netcat enabled so that I can play around while booting.
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MOSCOW - Thousands of people marched through Moscow on Sunday to protest Russia's new law banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a far bigger number than expected in a sign the outrage over the ban has breathed some life into the dispirited anti-Kremlin opposition movement.
Shouting "shame on the scum," protesters carried posters of President Vladimir Putin and members of Russia's parliament who overwhelmingly voted for the law last month. Up to 20,000 took part in the demonstration on a frigid, gray afternoon.
The adoption ban has stoked the anger of the same middle-class, urban professionals who swelled the protest ranks last winter, when more than 100,000 people turned out for rallies to demand free elections and an end to Putin's 12 years in power. Since Putin began a third presidential term in May, the protests have flagged as the opposition leaders have struggled to provide direction and capitalize on the broad discontent.
Opponents of the adoption ban argue it victimizes children to make a political point. Eager to take advantage of this anger, the anti-Kremlin opposition has played the ban as further evidence that Putin and his parliament have lost the moral right to rule Russia.
The Kremlin, however, has used the adoption controversy to further its efforts to discredit the opposition as unpatriotic and in the pay of the Americans.
Sunday's march may prove only a blip on what promises to be a long road for the protest movement, especially in the face of Kremlin efforts to stifle dissent. But it was a reunion of what has become known as Moscow's creative class, whose sarcastic wit was once again on display Sunday.
"Parliament deputies to orphanages, Putin to an old people's home," read one poster. Another showed Putin with the words "For a Russia without Herod."
Putin's critics have likened him to King Herod, who ruled at the time of Jesus Christ's birth and who the Bible says ordered the massacre of Jewish children to avoid being supplanted by the newborn king of the Jews.
Russia's adoption ban was retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting Russians accused of human rights abuses. It also addresses long-brewing resentment in Russia over the 60,000 Russian children who have been adopted by Americans in the past two decades, 19 of whom have died.
Cases of Russian children dying or suffering abuse at the hands of their American adoptive parents have been widely publicized in Russia, and the law banning adoptions was called the Dima Yakovlev bill after a toddler who died in 2008 when he was left in a car for hours in broiling heat.
"Yes, there are cases when they are abused and killed, but they are rare," said Sergei Udaltsov, who heads a leftist opposition group. "Concrete measures should be taken (to punish those responsible), but our government decided to act differently and sacrifice children's fates for its political ambitions."
Those opposed to the adoption ban accuse Putin's government of stoking anti-American sentiments in Russian society in an effort to solidify support among its base, the working-class Russians who live in small cities and towns and who get their news mainly from Kremlin-controlled television.
Putin has turned his back on the new Internet generation in Moscow and other large cities, exacerbating a divide in Russian society that seems likely only to deepen in coming years.
Protests against the adoption ban were held Sunday in a number of other Russian cities, but in most places only a few dozen people took part. In St. Petersburg, about 1,000 people turned out to show their opposition to the law and to Putin. Some held up a poster that read "Don't play politics using children."


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The great inventor Thomas Alva Edison was also an impassioned amateur botanist and enthusiastic gardener. Edison and his wife Mina began gardening soon after arriving in Fort Myers, Florida. Today, gardens at the Edison and Ford Winter Estates encompass 20 acres and contain more than 1,700 plants. The collection includes more than 400 species from six continents. These gardens are on every "must see" list for SW Florida, and a visit is easily incorporated into a stay at a Cape Coral or Bokeelia Bed and Breakfast vacation.
Edison approached his gardens as he approached his work, methodically and with purpose. Ever the inventor, Edison constantly researched the uses of plants. He used bamboo in his lightbulbs, and by the late 1920's was known throughout the world for his work with rubber trees. Yet he and his wife also loved nature; many of the flowers were planted to attract birds and butterflies, and many fruit trees were planted for their fruit. (more…)


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An Eastover man has been sentenced to a year and a half in federal prison for calling in a bomb threat to a school and having child pornography.
U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says 21-year-old Sidney Myers was also ordered Thursday to register as a sex offender.
Myers pleaded guilty in August. Prosecutors say he anonymously placed two phone calls to Columbia's Eau Claire High School in November 2011, claiming to have placed six bombs around the school.
No bombs were found.
An FBI investigation linked the threats to Myers' phone number. Agents say they found five videos on the phone of him engaging in sexual activity with his then-16-year-old girlfriend.


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Jennyah necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 146 diseños de 40 diseñadores freelance.
Jenny's Friends
I'm an old friend to the corporate world and the city life- was once a fast paced business woman traveling into major cities for high profile meetings and now I'm a enjoying a slower pace as a mother of 3 small children. Like my gift basket business, my ideas are edgy and fresh, but my look should be contemporary with distressed features. My goal is to sell high quality gift baskets and gift towers. Its a new company I hope to launch in a few short weeks, please help!
Ages 18 and older. It's an existing market and the competition is fierce. I'm hoping I can someday compete with Dean and DeLuca, Harry and Davids, etc. I've got the drive and now I need the right image. My customers are looking for high quality product and ease of purchasing.
Please provide an edgy contemporary feel with some distressed flare. Jenny's Friends should represent me, fresh but a bit tattered (mother of 3 all under 5 yrs-imagine!). I love the loft feel- industrial look with the rustic - distressed flare. Not into 'cute'. This business is gift baskets and gift towers, not only perishable products but gift items too. My goal is to stand out from the rest. Something easy to identify and/or read. I'm very open to all ideas... Would really like to see something that reflects 'basket business and gift towers". Open to trendy looking basket(s), presents, ribbons, bows, presents... etc. Thank you.
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New US$280 million Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes announced by top REDD+ donor nations
Warsaw, Poland -- 20 November 2013 – Top REDD+ donor nations of Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States renewed their commitment to REDD+ today at the global climate change meeting in Warsaw, announcing a new initiative, the BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes. The initiative is launching with an initial commitment of US$280 million, with additional partners expected to join. The announcement reinforced REDD+ as one of the few success stories at this year's global climate change meeting, and while applauded by WWF, the global conservation organization is calling on Parties to do more and fulfill their financial commitments made since Bali in 2007.
WWF is now calling on Parties to COP19 to follow the lead of these nations and come together to agree on a REDD+ Finance mechanism, and for all Parties to step up and show their commitment to meeting the large-scale financial bar they set of US$100 billion per year by 2020.
"The announcement by top donor countries to fund the new joint REDD+ programme, the Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes, with US$280 million committed so far, is a great example of nations coming together to address climate change in ways that benefit people and nature, but more needs to be done. WWF's expectation is that nations fulfill their promise of $100 billion per year from both public and private sources by 2020," said Josefina Brana-Varela, Policy Director of WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme.
"The announcement, though, sends an important and strong signal that some key nations are willing to work together to both fund and implement REDD+ -- action that needs to be embraced by other Parties in order to achieve broad agreement on a REDD+ Finance architecture," added Brana-Varela.
"Climate change is a global priority – nations must make decisions as a global community, and not negotiate on strictly national priorities. Top REDD+ donor nations have shown in launching their initiative that they are acting as global citizens, now is the time for other nations to step up and show that they too are responsible global citizens and to agree on a REDD+ finance mechanism. This is the only way to unlock large-scale and long-term REDD+ finance and to reduce forest loss carbon emissions to the level needed to fight climate change," said Brana-Varela.
In launching the initiative, US Secretary of State John Kerry said, "The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes is a critical new tool to help us meet our responsibilities to future generations. It will help countries move forward on REDD+ and continue to make progress on sustainable land use practices."
In their launch statement, Germany, Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States also reinforced their commitment to REDD+ and their belief that REDD+ can and will play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals – and in providing the "food, feed, fibre and fuels on which all depend, and protecting biodiversity and livelihoods."
WWF strongly supports this concept of REDD+ as part of a larger sustainability, or green development, strategy, and is working with governments, local communities, the private sector and other key stakeholders to implement REDD+ in this way. Our new report, Building REDD+ for People and Nature, highlights the success and challenges of this work over the last three years.
World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development Rachel Kyte reinforced the need for such a holistic approach, stating, "The fate of the climate, forests and agriculture are bound together."
The new initiative also emphasizes the need for a landscape, or jurisdictional, approach to implementation of REDD+, an approach that is supported by WWF, and one that we have implemented in our work in the Madre de Dios region of Peru, the Mai-Ndombe region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the East Kalimantan region of Indonesia on the island of Borneo – encompassing more than 15.5 million hectares.
This large-scale jurisdictional approach to REDD+ was highlighted by Norwegian Minister for Climate and the Environment Tine Sundtoft, who said, "This initiative is needed in order to demonstrate REDD+ results that are large scale taking a cross-sectorial approach and allowing for different social, political and administrative circumstances."
The Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes will be administered by the BioCarbon Fund, a public-private program housed within the World Bank that mobilizes finance for activities that sequester or conserve carbon emissions in forest and agricultural systems.
To learn more about WWF's international REDD+ efforts:
Visit www.panda.org/forestclimate or contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
WWF Media Contacts, in Warsaw for COP19:
- Mandy Woods, Head of Communications, WWF Global Climate & Energy Initiative, email: firstname.lastname@example.com, mobile: +48 515 289 239, skype: mandibles-sa, twitter: @MandyJeanWoods
- George Smeeton, Media Relations Manager WWF-UK, email: firstname.lastname@example.com, mobile: +44 (0)7917 052 948, skype: georgesmeeton, twitter: @GSmeeton
- Ian Morrison, Media & External Affairs, WWF-US, email: firstname.lastname@example.com, mobile: +1 202 372 6373, twitter: @i_morrison
Jennifer Ferguson-Mitchell, Communications Director, WWF global Forest and Climate Programme, email: email@example.com, mobile: +1-202-243-9902.
Related links
- Access all of WWF's REDD+ related UNFCCC-COP19 tools, news and info
- News release from World Bank on launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes
- US Government official remarks for launch of Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes announcement
- Video message from US Secretary of State John Kerry on the launch of the Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes


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Natasha Stotler enters her second season as graduate assistant coach.
Stotler was a four-season standout at Peach Belt Conference (PBC) foe UNC Pembroke. A three-time All-PBC selection, the forward finished her career as the 18th member of the 1,000-point club and 12th all time at UNCP with 1,275 points. She shot .412 (448-1088) from the floor and also pulled down 596 rebounds for a 6.0 per game average.
Stotler averaged nine points per game against Georgia College over the course of five meetings, the Lady Bobcats owning a 3-2 advantage in wins. Her best came in a 57-54 Lady Brave win during the 2005-06 season, when she scored 15.


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Eugene W. Sweeney
Eugene W. Sweeney, 90, died Monday, July 11, 2011 after a short illness. He was born February 20, 1921 to the late Thomas W. and Jane Pick Sweeney in Johnsonburg and attended local schools there.On February 5, 1946, he married Georgia E. Smith of St. Marys in the St. Mary's Catholic Church.He worked at the paper mill most of his life and retired in 1984, when he and his wife moved to Dutch Flat, Calif. They lived in California until they moved to Colorado in 2000 to be near their daughter, Edie. Eugene served four years in the service of his country during World War II. He was in the infantry, where he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. He then transferred to the Air Corps, where he became a waist gunner. He also served as a Military Policeman until he was honorably discharged.Surviving are his loving wife of 65 years and their five children, Thomas of Geneva, Fla., Christine Wattson of Newport Beach, Calif., Terese (Terry) Sweeney of Pearland, Texas, Edith (Edie) McNerney of Lakewood, Colo., and Attorney Beth Kuttler of Costa Mesa, Calif. He is also survived by 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Richard, Earl and Frederick; and three sisters, Violet Williams, Anita Fitch, and Virginia Verostek; and two sisters in infancy. A Memorial Mass for Eugene W. Sweeney will be held at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Lakewood, Colo.He will be buried in the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery at the convenience of the family.


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In Armenia, Perception Matters For Tax Reforms
Would you be more willing to pay taxes if you didn't have to spend hours doing it, or if you see that money being used in the right way? Well, you are not alone.
Armenians, like people around the world, feel the same. According to the recently conducted Tax Perception Survey in the country, easier tax compliance and more visible link between taxes paid and public services received was found to be particularly important.
Between 66 percent and 75 percent of respondents said they would be more willing to pay more taxes if the procedures were easy and less time-consuming, if they saw more useful social and other public services, or if they saw less corruption.
Over 95 percent of respondents felt the tax burden is heavy or very heavy, while almost 50 percent reported that evading tax payments was not justified under any circumstances.
About 57 percent noted that high taxes or desperate financial situations were the main reasons for avoiding or evading tax payments.
The data unveiled by the latest Tax Perception Survey, carried out with USAID support and World Bank Group technical assistance covered around 1,500 households and 400 business taxpayers. The analysis strengthened the need to modernize the tax system, which has remained a major challenge for Armenia. Despite Armenia's ranking as 37th in Doing Business, the taxation system, at 103rd on the list, still requires a lot of work.
To be sure, there have been some improvements to the system in the past few years. They include the introduction of electronic filing of tax returns, e-government applications, risk-based audit principles, and taxpayer service centers and appeal system. These achievements contributed to increasing the tax to GDP ratio from 19.5 percent in 2010 to 22.8 percent in 2013.
But much remains to be done to further streamline and simplify tax procedures, modernize the tax administration, and enact a tax code.


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In my regular professional development column for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS), Plays Well With Others, check out my latest post on dealing with micromanagers.
This article is part one of a two part series. Part one deals with identifying how and why managers become micro-managers.
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Too bad you have to log in just to read the article :(. Hmm, isn't that a bit of micromanagement? Forcing someone to login just to read some content???


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|2008-09-14, 09:02
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|2008-09-14, 12:19
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Alright DKZ you did not lead me astray it was a fun episode. *Sticks a cookie in the appropriate slot*
See what happens when you take a manga chapter and expand them like this one and the cafe one...The show stops being abysmal yay. Heh but yea I enjoyed Lala's range of personalities and her VA did a fantastic job bringing them all to life.
Shame noone gave Domination Lala a horsewhip though...that would have completed the look perfectly.
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Well, at least we now know the show has a plot.
I wonder if they'll actually go as far as to making Rito pick one over the other between Lala and Haruna (I know some of you think Lala won because he says that he likes her at the end, but his eyes on Haruna didn't necessarily come off in my opinion).
If they do decide to bring the show up a notch and do this, it would really be a heartbreaking moment *hoping to watch it happen*
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Because I haven't read the manga, I think it's interesting to look this show's movement until the last episode...
Hope good ending, but a sadd ending is fine, too
|2008-09-15, 22:59
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If they show even one Yui chapter I will very happy....
|2008-09-20, 17:25
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The ep26 title says "Lala" so from this title you can say what ending it will have ^^
I see something like Rito trying his best but the further they go the harder it gets so Lala seeing her precious friends getting hurt in order to get to her will stop the game (in order to save them) but as a result she will leave earth along with her friends and Rito who she really loves.
After Lala disappeared Rito started to understand that the one he really loves is Lala not Haruna so he confesses to Haruna his decided feelings and goes after Lala
In preview we saw Ren so mostly Ren will help Rito to get to Lala (planet or her ship) by his flying car... Rito will meet wil Lala and will confess to her (she could simply tell that Rito becomed her one in the universe most important person).... well after leaving earth Lala was crying bitterly and was sad so when Rito cames her smile came back so Lalas dad finaly agrees to the weeding ^^ (since he sees that Lala is happy only with that guy)
Hmmm in last sec. of the preview we see Rito running in a a grass field and the sun is set so mostly after lala's annoucment he runns to the end game place but the ship started into space so here comes the upper part what I wrote ^^ but it ends up Lala and Rito returning to earth officialy as a couple and everyone is happy even Haruna since she is happy that her friend Lala retuned and that Rito is happy too
Personaly I think that Haruna doesnt deserve to end up with Rito at the end... well all what she done was sitting at her ass not doing a single move to finaly confess.... she woke up somehow after Lala come and was saying loud that she loves Rito (love rival and very powerfull stealing the person she likes) yet from this point she didnt made a clear move to confesion ;/. Lala in particular was doing everyting for Rito well she lacks of comon sense with those inventions but she didnt have any love experiance yet she tryes her hardest to gain attention from Rito (and his feelings)
Hmmm the RitoxLala ending is somehow shown in ending scences ^^ there is only Haruna that might symbolize lost love and her desire to be with the one she loves yet its immposible :P (hope so XD.... sorry for Haruna fans.... but everyone has their own liking ^^)
I wonder if they could go further into weeding scene XD like after Lala flew away from earth Gid annouced to her that he chosed Lalas partner and the weeding will have place in 1 or few days... the weeding day came the parner is waiting at the altar Lala is coming very sad but when she cames to the altar she notices that the marry partner is Rito (who went after her when she left earth) and her smile along with tears of joy came immediately after that both could come to earth as a marry couple ^^ heheh this idea came from many movies so why not :P
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mmmm, I don't know that the title of the last ep tells us *anything* about "who wins".
At this point, I've mostly stopped watching the series other than to track the summaries with the idea of re-picking it up if things changed. But it looks like this could easily in at least 3 totally different ways including a quick succession of false endings with a final non-ending.
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|2008-09-24, 09:00
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To Love Ru would've been a lot better as 13 episodes.
1. "The Girl Who Decended" (1)
2. "Engagement Cancelled?!"(2)
3. "Triangle Relationship" (3)
4. "The Queen's Written Challenge" (5)
5. "Alien Assassin" (6)
6. "This Is How It Should Be For Every Man!" (7)
7. An Honest and Pure Disciplinarian" (8)
8. "Golden Darkness" (11)
9. "The Number One Man in the Universe" (13)
10. "Secret of the Two" (14)
11. "While Shying Away" (24)
12. "The Last Night of Earth" (25)
13. "Lala" (26)
If you only watch those episodes, it's pretty good.
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With darker, cooler evenings, there is no denying lazy summer days at the cottage are over. If your place is likely to be cut off for the winter months, now is a great time to make sure it will be in good shape when spring comes around.
"Many environmental factors can impact seasonal homes and contents over the winter, more so when limited human intervention is possible," says Dwayne McQuade, director of market development for Rona in Ontario. "Island-access cottages and cottages with no winter road access pose the greatest challenge."
A call to your insurance professional will tell you what coverage you have for the unoccupied property and its contents over the winter.
"If you leave your cottage unoccupied until the spring , shut the water valve and drain [flush] your system," says Henry Blumenthal, vice-president and chief underwriter with TD Insurance. "Otherwise in the spring, if it's not heated properly, you may have water everywhere."
Mr. Blumenthal says come springtime, his firm receives claims for losses from fire, water or wind damage. Heavier snow over the past couple of years has meant more claims for damage from the weight of snow on cottage roofs.
"A contingency plan should be arranged with a local roof snow removal service to notify you when accumulation becomes excessive," Mr. McQuade says. "Unqualified shovellers can cause liability issues in case of slips and falls and [shovelling] can damage roof materials if done improperly."
If possible, arrange for a cottage neighbour to check on your place.
"Better to pay for someone to inspect, than to have an unpleasant surprise come springtime," Mr Blumenthal says.
Your cottage may host some uninvited guests in the winter.
"Are you insured against vandalism? If you're located near a high snowmobile traffic route you may have unwanted visitors," Mr. Blumenthal says. "They may break in and do damage, or they're in distress and they use your place to warm up. We see those [types of claims] once in a while."
But taking precautions can reduce the damage caused by more benign uninvited visitors.
"If a fireplace is present and the damper is closed, create a large sign in front of the firebox stating: Please open damper if having fire and leave place how you found it," Mr. McQuade says. "This will send a clear message to avoid massive smoke damage or a cottage fire in case of burglar activity. Leave a small amount of firewood to discourage perpetrators from burning furniture."
Mr. Blumenthal says it is best to remove all valuables from an unoccupied property, as well as electronics that need a regulated climate. "There may be moisture, vermin, other types of losses you don't expect."
Prior to closing up for the winter, Mr. McQuade says you can vacuum the water from your toilet bowl and tank and replace it with four litres of plastic/metal pipe-safe plumber's antifreeze.
"Put your feet up and dream of next spring," Mr. McQuade says.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Hanging on
I change the desktop image on my laptop every now and then, generally when I come across a new image I like. In the last year or so you'll remember that I wrote about Caravaggio's The Rest on the Flight Into Egypt and Vermeer's The Milkmaid. Live with an image for a while and it's inevitable that you learn something from it.
Here is the painting I've had as my desktop in recent weeks, Winslow Homer's Snap the Whip, 1872, one of America's sentimental favorites. Click to enlarge.
A simpler, more innocent time. Boys at recess, barefoot in the grass. Hand-me-down clothes. Autumn wildflowers, trees turning to red and gold. A fumbling Ulysses S. Grant is in the White House, the country is at peace after a horrendous civil war, and the Panic of 1873 and subsequent depression is still in the offing. Anyway, all of that political and economic stuff is a bit of a pother and far away. The sun is high in the sky, there's an apple in the pocket, and only the oldest boy is thinking yet about the eternal mystery that is girls.
Yes, a lovely sentimental anecdote to the busy rancor of our own time, the incessant noise of the television, the attack ads, the news of war. How blissful to be twelve years old again, fit and healthy with the grass between your toes. Never mind that these boys had a life expectancy at birth of about 40 years, and that many of them had probably already lost a sibling or parent; when the sun's out, and it's recess, and you've got eight pals to play with…
But that's not why I like the painting. I love the way the arc of the whip reflects the curve of the hill. The vanishing point of the red schoolhouse and three white shirts -- everything converges on the two adults in the distance, the grown-up world that inevitably awaits.
Between the three boys who anchor the whip and the six who resist the centrifugal force that breaks the chain is the schoolhouse, the open door and window bracketing the anchor's grip. Maybe it's because I was a teacher all my life, but I like to think that the "message" of the painting has to do with education, with what goes on when the boys and girls are called back inside by the teacher's bell -- the glue that holds a civil society together when the whiplash of events threatens to tear us apart. Not indoctrination. Rather, reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, the basic skills that enable an individual to explore the world creatively. History, geography and science, with their lessons of diversity, tolerance and respect for empirical fact. The ameliorating influence of poetry and art.
And one of these boys, maybe the oldest in the center, will become a teacher himself, maintaining an unbroken chain of accumulated knowledge that anchors us to the past and propels us together into a mutually supportive and secure future.


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We mentioned in last week's post that we're very excited about the collaborative effort of Slow Food USA and Chefs Collaborative's Renewing America's Food Traditions (RAFT) grow-out project. This year, the grow-out is taking place only in New England, and it offers we Rhode Islanders (and all New Englanders) a great opportunity to experience the tastes of endangered foods by purchasing them later this year at farmers markets and restaurants that feature these foods, and we are also fortunate because we can grow some of these foods ourselves in our backyard gardens and balcony planters.
Below is a list of RAFT grow-out foods for Rhode Island. If you click on the variety name, it will bring you to a seed source website for that food so that you can grow these heirloom varieties yourself. If you do have a garden, consider planting a plant or two of each variety - or even just a few varieties - and share the seeds with your neighbors. Please do spread the word - the goal for these foods is to repatriate them here in the region in which they originated, and the more individuals who take up the cause by sowing seeds, buying this produce at the farmers market, or requesting that their grocery store carry these foods, the better chance they have for survival.
RAFT Grow-out Varieties:
Early blood turnip-rooted beet
Jimmy Nardello's sweet pepper
Sibley's Pikes Peak squash
Boston Marrow Squash
Long Pie pumpkin
True Red Cranberry beans
Marfax bean
Gilfeather turnip
Winningstadt cabbage
Boothby's blonde cucumber
Student parsnip
Wethersfield onion
Trophy tomato
Siberian Sweet watermelon
Stowell's Evergreen sweet corn
There are an enormous assortment of foods that originated in New England - everything from fruit and nut trees, to chickens, to shellfish, as well as other vegetables - that are endangered. For the full list, please visit Slow Food USA's website to download a pdf on New England's Place-based Foods at Risk with more information on the RAFT project.
Also, to read a wonderful article on the Ark of Taste - created by Slow Food to raise awareness about these endangered foods and to keep them in production, therefore promoting biodiversity - and to learn where the title for today's post originated, please take a look at the FLYP website.
As winter slowly begins to wind down, we'll be posting more and more information on the RAFT project and the stories behind the foods. Once the growing season is upon us, we'll provide information on the farmers' efforts in growing the foods, and then, at harvest time, we'll let you know where to find these heirloom varieties - at farmers markets and on restaurant menus, and with your help, maybe even in grocery stores. We're looking forward to seeing the cycle unfold, and hope you'll join us in our efforts to restore these foods in Rhode Island.
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Comprehensive Prostate Program
Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer, and the second leading cause of cancer death among men in the United States. In 2010, approximately 217,730 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer and 32,050 died of their disease.
The Comprehensive Prostate Program at the Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center, addresses prostate cancer using a multidisciplinary approach from the time of diagnosis through treatment. Prostate cancer is a complex disease. The range of treatment options is broad and can be daunting. The Cancer Center offers a wide range of services to help navigate this complicated disease, including resources and education to understand prostate cancer and its treatment options. The staff provides assistance in developing a treatment plan, access to research protocols, nutritional counseling, integrative therapies, support groups (both for patients and their families), and a survivorship center.
Prostate cancer is also a very individual disease, and its treatment must be tailored to each person. Many factors must be considered when planning treatment, including age, other medical problems, PSA , clinical stage (how far the cancer has progressed), grade (how aggressive it is), and volume of cancer on biopsy. Last, but by no means least, are each person's own priorities, preferences for and goals of treatment
A diagnosis of prostate cancer is life-changing. The Comprehensive Prostate Program at the Middlesex Hospital Cancer Center provides patients access to high-quality medical and surgical oncology services with the personal touch of a Nurse Navigator to coordinate care and guide you through your prostate cancer treatment and care journey.
This site provides an overview of prostate cancer and its treatment to assist you in your discussions with your physicians.
Physician's Statement
Prostate cancer is a widespread and sometimes deadly disease. What sets it apart from other cancers is the range of prostate cancer (from slow-growing to aggressive) and the number of treatment options. It is important for my patients to understand not only the nature of the disease, but all their options, so we can work together to develop an individual treatment plan.
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Possibility to split tool.xml into several files
For large projects the tool.xml file gets complicated and it is hard to keep track of the file structure. It would be desirable to be able and copy-paste other files into a specific location in tool.xml, similar to the input option in Latex. Like this subsections can be stored in different files.


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The sincere thank-you of a mother who received assistance from Christmas Cheer is a reward cherished and appreciated by those associated with the long-standing program of Christmas Cheer.
Christmas Cheer seeks to help children and their families receive an offering that represents this community�s caring for those in need.
During the �80s, �We do this for the children� became the mantra for the Christmas Cheer volunteers. Starting with taking applications in beginning in October, the eligibility committee reviews each one with the thought that children can�t help what their parents do, but we can help the children know that this community cares about them. The eligibility committee reviews income, circumstances, expenses and other factors before evaluating our level of assistance.
Then Sponsor Coordinator Shelly Bishop goes to work to find sponsors for families. Cindy Williams provides excellent assistance in this area and significant leadership in taking applications, processing and filling in where needed during distribution.
Distribution is our most visible time and the time that we need the most volunteers. At one time during Saturday, more than 150 volunteers were in the building helping mothers, fathers, guardians and others select toys for more than 2,300 children. We are inspired by the community�s response in donations, personal time and support for this true community effort.
This is a thank-you to the community. We have held your trust in the highest regard to provide for children and for those who need food during the Christmas season.
The community has responded so graciously; the employees and leadership of Jones-Onslow EMC, the Onslow County school system and so many more provided significant assistance to provide bikes. Part of the school system�s effort was an encore of having top-level staff operate McDonalds for a night. We want to thank Toys for Tots area Coordinator Gunnery Sgt. Robert Patterson and his associates, who gave personal attention to the needs of our children.
We want to give thanks for our partnership with the Onslow County Department of Social Services. Ingrid Farlow was our main point of contact who gave many hours of her personal time for this effort. She was also a coordinator of the local chapter of the N.C. Social Services Association project to provide gifts for teens. Ingrid shines as a leader, a compassionate but practical evaluator and a tireless worker. A special thanks to DSS Director Heidi Bauer for her coordination during this project.
We are deeply appreciative of the 18 schools that provided foodstuffs and the hundreds of other donations that let us provide for about 1200 food boxes. John Dennis and Jimmy White led a great food section this year. Their efforts were amplified by the work of Ward Sylvester and his family who gave a substantial amount of coupons to feed families in need and the always constant support of Preston Taylor and his family.
Before we begin each day of distribution, we join our volunteers and others into a circle. It is representative of the diversity of the community that makes this work and how we work as a team. This year, as in years past, we�re joined by hundreds of volunteers. Some are students, some have volunteered year-after-year and some are first time helpers. All are appreciated. It�s particularly heartwarming to see those who volunteered in high school return during their Christmas break to help as well as the number of families that volunteer together.
There were others, each a great benefit in our efforts to demonstrate that this is not the work of individuals; it is the offering of a community demonstrating its desire to follow the example of our Lord and his love for us by the gift of His Son. That demonstration was clearly made in the many volunteers who start in October and who were at the Christmas Cheer center hours before Christmas helping to serve others.
We were blessed to be entrusted by Eastern Builders and Jerry Thompson for the use of their building on Drummer-Kellum Road. We are deeply appreciative of this location and their respect for the Christmas Cheer program. We work hard to hold that trust with each donation made to Christmas Cheer.
Our shared exercise is a ministry in providing to those who need assistance, to share in the experience of helping others and in spreading the bounty that this community gives to help those in need.
We also give great thanks to those who individually gave toys or food, or organized events, parties, gatherings and workplace efforts to amplify the efforts of a single person.
The American Legion continued their historic support of families in need of food as well as the service provided by the Onslow County United States Bowling Congress of the area. The bowling group delivers many food offerings directly to the homes of those in need.
It takes an army of volunteers, an incredible array of donations, a wonderful mix of effort from the staff of Onslow Community Outreach and the Christmas Cheer Committee to make this work. The vast majority of donations are made in increments of bags of toys or boxes of canned goods.
Among our current collaborators is the Salvation Army. We appreciate their cooperation and support to provide a meat with the Christmas meal families receive. We also collaborate with the area Rotary Clubs who organize a food drive, provide volunteers and boxes for the food to be packaged. Thanks to each of you for your work.
We appreciate the work of Volunteer Onslow Director Laurie Welch and the Jacksonville-Onslow Volunteer Center housed at the United Way. The volunteers included hundreds of students participating in the Sponsors for Academic Talent Scholarship Program, Marines and sailors, families and individuals, some of whom return year-after-year. Many gave long hours. Included in that group who gave long hours were those who took applications during October and repeated that again for our emergency application process.
To keep the work at the center going, we feed the army of volunteers. It has become a tradition for Steve Wangerin to lead a team to serve barbecue chicken on site to feed the volunteers on our biggest day. The team of help this year included Dr. Todd Fischer, Dr. Wes Hambright and Mike Tuton. Michael Lazzara with Michelangelo�s, the Rotary Club South, Brewed Awakenings, Olive Garden, Subway Sandwiches, Logan�s, Food Lion, Little Caesars, Golden Corral and Linda Hatcher of Special Events Catering provided the fuel for the forces.
Diane DeVusser and Jean Hawley led the food service to the volunteers. Carol Hurst Long coordinates transportation issues which plague our clients, coordinates deliveries and provides specialized assistance as well as consistent training for the escorts.
We also want to acknowledge the support of the city in supporting my time to help with this effort. I was honored that City Manager Dr. Richard Woodruff spent yet another year directing traffic during high distribution days. Former City Manager Ken Hagan joined him for some of the duty.
Our toy section leader and building operator is Linda Fountain whom we truly appreciate. She assembles an army of folks to help, including her son Allen and husband Rex and her sidekick Tina Trott. The service of Van Carter to provide expert service for our bikes is appreciated.
Dr. Don Herring, president of Onslow Community Outreach, gave his unbelievable support to the effort and provided great inspiration. Thanks to Everett Vaughn for his leadership and personal help in the administration of the program and the computer system. We have a new computer program that helped to provide more checks and accountability to the public as well as offering more cases for sponsorship. Thanks Scott Crosby for your work.
The leadership of Onslow Community Outreach by Executive Director Theo McClammy was significant. Thanks also to the Christmas Cheer Committee who will gather in January to review this operation and plan for next year and then, in September, execute that plan.
Part of that plan is to always ensure the dignity of those who seek assistance is maintained. We do that in part by our efforts to create a �shopping experience� for those who come to the Christmas Cheer center. A personal escort is part of that experience and part of the hundreds of volunteers who helped. Escort Coordinator Marshall Smith provided excellent leadership and inspiration.
Thanks to everyone who labored, donated, supported, sponsored or provided for Christmas Cheer. Your efforts, no matter how great or how small, make this a special program that demonstrates this community�s spirit of caring.
Thanks for every individual contribution, some made in honor of someone, some made from a consciousness of caring and some made with overwhelming generosity. Thanks to all of you who helped in any way! From all of us, a sincere Merry Christmas.
Jacksonville resident Glenn Hargett, a longtime volunteer leader for Christmas Cheer, provided this annual message on behalf of the Christmas Cheer Committee and Onslow Community Outreach.


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Hotels in Europe for under $250 per night might sound like an impossibility, especially well-designed spaces. But great design is so important to Europeans that you don't have to look far to find some amazing hotels that come in under $250 a night.
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When I visited my family in Jamaica in 1996 only six of Mum's siblings were still alive. Boysie, Birdie, Pearl, Chickie (christened Kathleen), Ruby and Dolly. Boysie was living in Canada and I never got to meet him, although Mum spoke to him on the phone.
It was wonderful to finally meet some of Mum's family – my extended family, the family that as a child I'd always longed for but which, in the main, Mum didn't like to talk about. She'd say, "it makes me sad". But ironically, when she was sad, that was when she'd open up a bit and I gleaned little bits of information about her family. I knew that as small children Mum, Ruby and Dolly had been very close and it was interesting to see just how much Ruby and Dolly looked like Mum, as well as being a bit unnerving.
Although I'd warned my aunts before I left the UK that Mum wouldn't be coming with me to Kingston because she had serious health problems, I think a little bit of them was hoping she would appear at the last minute. But her non appearance didn't diminish in anyway the reception they gave me. They had thrown a "Welcome Home" party for me attended by their children – my cousins – and family and their friends. It was all a bit overwhelming really. I was so glad my son Stuart had come with me. My aunts made a great fuss of Stuart too and it took some of the pressure of me.
My aunts made a huge fuss of me and were genuinely excited to meet Olga's daughter. They were so excited, like small children, constantly chattering and interrupting each other so they could speak to me, hugging me and always one of them holding my hand. They'd ask me over and over again "How is Olga?". "Why didn't Olga let us know she was alive"? It was strange to hear Mum being called Olga, because I'd only every known her as Carmen. When I asked them why she changed her name from Olga to Carmen, they said they had no idea. She was always Olga to them. I was to find out the answer to that one later.
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The Kiowa County Mavericks will face the Skyline Thunderbirds in week six. While the 'Birds have struggled mightily to find a sustainable offense, they may be primed for a breakout.
The Kiowa County Mavericks will face the Skyline Thunderbirds in week six. While the 'Birds have struggled mightily to find a sustainable offense, they may be primed for a breakout.
The Mavs offense played strong football in week five against a stubborn South Central High team. But, while a 225-yard performance with 3 ground game touchdowns from #8 Trever Powell helped put the Mavs over the top, the Maverick defense allowed the game to come down to a pair of plays. A Timberwolves third and short in a late quarter push was halted, not by the defense, but by an interception from Powell, who was backed up by an 80-yard, 2 TD performance from #24 Creighton McDonald.
Through five games this season, the offensive numbers are good, but show some late game defensive vulnerability.
The Mavericks are, on average, outscoring or matching opponent offense for the first three quarters.
The Mavericks have scored a combined 32 points in the first quarter and have allowed a total of 32 points. They are outscoring opponents in the second and third quarters, scoring a total of 42 points in each. Opponents have scored 40 points in the second and 28 points in the third.
Opponents have scored lowest in the third quarter, showing that half time adjustments have been effective.
But the Mavericks have had trouble stamping down late game opponent offense, as they have been outscored 56-to-62 in the final quarter.
The numbers also show that the Mavericks are winning games by halves, scoring a total of 74 points in the first half, while opponents have scored 62 points.
The Mavericks are slightly over performing in the second half, totaling 95 points in the third and fourth quarter, although opponents have scored 90 points.
The numbers indicate strong defensive first half and a strong offensive second half.
There is no question that the Mavericks defense will determine the season score but whether it will be a sub-500 team still remains to be seen.
Friday will be a good barometer as Skyline's #33 Brandon Baird, who leads the team in rushing with 420 yards, and the tandem of #04 Blake Lee and #12 Cole Patterson who have combined for 158 yards passing, will look to exploit defensive weakness.


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I won't rehash the entire article about comments, so in a nutshell: a discussion between several prominent bloggers and authors erupted a few months ago about whether or not to enable comments on websites. One of the arguments against having comments was that Twitter was a perfectly adequate replacement; something I think is complete nonsense. Not only is Twitter effectively one-to-one communication (it's very easy to just ignore tweets you disagree with; none of your other readers will ever see them), Twitter messages also simply far too short to be able to sustain a coherent conversation.
In other words, as a blogger or web author, Twitter is convenient if you don't want to be contradicted or worse, if you want to spread misinformation. On the other hand, for those of us who like open and public discussions, Twitter is incredibly cumbersome and counter-productive.
This past weekend, all this was illustrated quite well. A former Apple engineer, Michael Margolis, took to Twitter to state that the new Apple TV uses a UI that Steve Jobs threw out 5 years ago, and that now that Jobs has passed away, there's nobody to say no to bad design, and a few other tidbits.
Of course, this 'story' exploded all over the web. It's juicy, has stuff about Apple, Jobs, and a new Apple product, and what is sure going to be the new Apple blogosphere catchphrase: "Jobs would never have approved that". It's golden stuff.
TechCrunch contacted Margolis, and as it turns out, given more than 140 characters to deal with, the story becomes a whole lot less exciting. Sure, Jobs didn't like the iOS-like design 5 years ago, but at the same time, this was pre-native applications. This was pre-iPad. This was pre-zOMG-iOS-is-more-popular-than-god. This was pre-everything.
I don't much care for the story in and of itself - the Apple TV seems rather useless unless you're in America - but it does illustrate ever so interestingly just how bad Twitter is at anything more than extremely light-hearted fluff. As soon as Margolis was given more characters to deal with, a more temperate, logical, and coherent story emerges.
This is exactly what's wrong with relying on Twitter for comments: no context, no coherency, because there's simply far too little room for it. Like I said in the original article about comments - you're free to not want comments on your site, but suggesting that Twitter is a replacement is not just silly, it's downright stupid.
That being said - how are you guys liking the new Apple TV? Is there any merit to the hatred the UI is receiving? I honestly have no idea - the Apple TV is rather useless here since there's very little content in iTunes in The Netherlands. I've never even seen one outside of a store, so I'm not even sure how it works, exactly. Also, can you run something useful on it, like XBMC? At €99, it would be a decent XBMC box.


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A Cohort Study to Assess Sustained Immunogenicity to qHPV Vaccine Among HIV-infected Girls and Boys Age 9-14 Years
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01446718
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : October 5, 2011
Last Update Posted : September 7, 2016
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|Condition or disease
|Human Papillomavirus HIV-1 Infection
|Biological: Gardasil vaccine
HIV-infected individuals bear a disproportionate disease burden of HPV-related diseases suggesting more rapid progression from HPV acquisition to malignancy. HIV infected women have a 2-22 fold increased risk for cervical cancer compared to uninfected women. The quadrivalent HPV vaccine marketed as "Gardasil" has demonstrated efficacy against type specific HPV infections known to cause 70% cervical cancer (HPV 16 & 18) and HPV 6 & 11 known to cause 90% of anogenital warts in populations of HIV negative young women.
Since the risk of HPV exposure persists throughout a person's sexual life, the duration of protection, especially when the vaccine is given in the pre-adolescent period, is critical to overall vaccine effectiveness. Extended follow up of HIV-uninfected individuals has shown sustained response to HPV vaccine for 8.4 and 6 years respectively to the bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines. However, other vaccines such as the hepatitis B vaccine have been shown to require additional dosages to be effective among HIV-infected persons.
Data on immunogenicity of the HPV vaccine among HIV infected adolescents is limited to a 12 month follow up period.
Current HPV vaccine guidelines target pre-sexual adolescents. Since the risk of HPV exposure persists throughout an individual's sexual life, the duration of protection provided by vaccination is critical to the overall vaccine effectiveness. Duration of sustained HPV 6/11/16/18 antibody response is directly related to vaccine effectiveness and determines the need for booster dosing.
The investigators therefore propose to extend follow up of 179 girls and boys in Kenya, age 9-14 years who have received 3 doses of the quadrivalent 'Gardasil' vaccine and assess for immunogenicity annually.
Study Location: Partners in Prevention, Thika site
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|Actual Enrollment :
|179 participants
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|Official Title:
|A Longitudinal Observational Cohort Study to Assess Sustained Immunogenicity up to 48 Months to Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Among HIV-infected Girls and Boys Age 9-14 Years in Kenya
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|December 2014
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|November 2018
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2019
Gardasil Vaccine
This is an extension of follow up for participants who received 3 doses of Gardasil vaccine in the "Immunogenicity and Safety of Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine in HIV-Infected Pre-Adolescent Girls and Boys in Kenya" study.
Biological: Gardasil vaccine
0.5ml of intramuscular vaccine in three doses
Other Name: Gardasil
- immune response to vaccine specific HPV types [ Time Frame: 48 months ]antibody response to HPV type 6, 11, 16, 18 measured by cLIA
- immune response to vaccine specific HPV types [ Time Frame: 48 months ]HPV infection among sexually active HIV infected adolescents
Biospecimen Retention: None Retained
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|9 Years to 14 Years (Child)
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV-infected
- age 9-14 years
- guardian/parental consent
Exclusion Criteria:
Participants will be excluded if they
- are severely ill as defined by Karnofsky <70
- have a diagnosis of malignancy
- on-going febrile illness (temperature ≥37.8°C), including active treatment for an opportunistic infection
- have received systemic corticosteroids within prior one year
- have received inactivated vaccine within prior 2 weeks, or live attenuated vaccine within prior 6 weeks
- have history of allergy to any products included in the HPV vaccine
- have received any of blood derivatives within prior 6 months
- are pregnant
- lack parental consent and/or parent declines to provide assent
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01446718
|Principal Investigator:
|Nelly R Mugo, MMed, MPH
|Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
|Responsible Party:
|Nelly R. Mugo, Dr., Kenya Medical Research Institute
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|NCT01446718 History of Changes
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|First Posted:
|October 5, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 7, 2016
|Last Verified:
|September 2016
Keywords provided by Nelly R. Mugo, Kenya Medical Research Institute:
quadrivalent vaccine
Human Papillomavirus
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Immunologic Factors
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One dog had only been at a Colorado Springs area animal shelter for three days before he decided to bust out of his kennel–and then the building.
To pull off his so-called "great escape" on Oct. 8, a five-year-old Australian shepherd "had to actually push down the handle, push the door open and walk through it in both cases," Gretchen Pressley, communications specialist for the Humane Society of Pikes Peak Region, told KKTV in a story that aired Friday. The dog wandered around the area before being spotted by Ashley Heister, who returned the pup hours later. The Humane Society nicknamed him "Houdini," in honor of the great escape artist and magician Harry Houdini.
Heister was all ready to adopt him when his real owners came in the next day to reclaim the dog — originally named Rope — after seeing the KKTV news report, the shelter wrote on its Facebook page Monday. Pressley tells TIME that the Humane Society put a microchip in the dog free of charge so that whoever scans him can find out where he lives.
But maybe Rope is an apt name for a clever dog that can "let himself in and out of all types of kennels and doors." After all, the real Houdini was also known for a "rope escape" trick, where he could get tied up in ropes as long as 60 feet and set himself free.
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