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Hemophilia and Thrombosis: Referral Directory
Physician Contacts:
Key Contacts:
Kaye Schmidt, RN, MA, CPON, NEA-BC
Description of services:
Comprehensive diagnostic and treatment program for patients with disorders of blood coagulation which results in increased risk of bleeding or clotting, including a focus on the following:
- Parent and patient education.
- Prevention of hemorrhage by means of prophylactic factor infusions.
- Insertion and maintenance of intravenous access devices
- Treatment of musculoskeletal complications of hemophilia (physical therapy programs, arthroscopic synovectomy, etc.)
- Monitoring for viral infections, a complicating factor of replacement therapy.
- Psychosocial and financial assistance.
- Management of patients with increased blood clotting, including arterial and venous thrombosis, catheter-associated blood clots, thrombotic strokes and hereditary clotting disorders (thrombophilia).
- Monitoring anticoagulation therapy.
- Transition program for older adolescents and young adults with coagulation disorders.
- Acquired blood coagulation disorders.
- Hereditary and acquired thrombotic disorders.
The Pediatric Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center is a component of the North Texas Comprehensive Hemophilia Center, which receives federal funding from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Procedures performed or problems diagnosed and treated:
Consultative diagnostic and management services for infants, children and adolescents with the following conditions:
- Congenital FVIII and IX deficiency
- von Willebrand disease
- Qualitative disorders of platelets
- Other hereditary bleeding disorders
- Assessment of children suspected of having a bleeding disorder on the basis of an abnormal laboratory test (prolonged PTT) or signs/symptoms (recurrent epistaxis, easy bruising, positive family history, etc.)
- Venous and arterial thrombosis
- Catheter-related thrombosis
- Familial prothrombotic disorders, including Protein C & S deficiency and Factor V Leiden & Prothrombin G20210A mutations.
Information for referral sources:
- A referral from physician or referral source is required.
- Patient instructions for specific tests will be provided when the appointment is scheduled.
- To avoid unnecessary testing, have the family bring relevant medical records, test results and X-rays to the appointment.
- Services are provided in close cooperation with the patient's referring physician.
- Diagnosis, evaluation and recommended treatment information is provided promptly to the referring physician.
After hours or for emergencies, call 214-456-7000 and request the hematologist-oncologist on call.
Please provide the following when calling to schedule a patient for a diagnostic evaluation:
- Patient name and date of birth
- Probable diagnosis
- Insurance/referral information
- Physician clinical findings or symptoms which caused the patient to visit physician
- Parent (guarantor) name, address and phone number
Why Children's Medical Center?
- Since the late 1970s the hemophilia and thrombosis program at Children's has been the leader in North Texas responsible for the diagnosis and management of hereditary and acquired bleeding disorders during childhood.
- A comprehensive hemophilia clinic meets weekly at Children's to serve hemophilia patients and their families and function as a diagnostic resource for primary care physicians who suspect a patient might be a "free bleeder."
- Children's participates in the nationwide "Universal Data Collection" project, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, which monitors two major complications of bleeding disorders — blood-borne disease and joint disease.
- Children's is an internationally known leader in research in hemophilia/thrombophilia and other inherited hemorrhagic/thrombotic disorders including catheter-related complications and arthroscopic synovectomy.
- A member of the Alliance of Five international research group, along with The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Emory University and the University of Montreal.


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Music Theory Validation ExamsThe Mississippi Board of Education for State Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) approved an articulation agreement for transfers from community colleges beginning in Fall 2006. In music, a significant change is that the new agreement acknowledges only Freshmen Music Theory courses (MUS 1211, 1214, 1221 and 1224) but not Sophomore Theory courses, as it had in the past. In order for transfer students to receive credit for Sophomore Music Theory courses at the University of Mississippi, students will have to take a "validation exam" for Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) III (first semester of Sophomore Theory) and Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) IV (second semester of Sophomore Theory), to be offered at the beginning of the Fall and Spring semesters. Students who pass the Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) III exam will receive equivalent credit for our MUS 205 (Musicianship and Harmony III) and students who pass the Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) IV exam will receive credit for both MUS 205 and MUS 206 Musicianship and Harmony III and IV), provided they have passed the corresponding courses with a grade of C or better at their community college. So students may know what to expect please see the links below for the sample validation exam for Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) III and (Theory) IV. The following are PDF files, which can be viewed with a PDF reader such as the free Adobe Acrobat Reader. Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) III validation exam.
Musicianship and Harmony (Theory) IV validation exam.
For further information on the exam, you may contact Dr. Laurdella Foulkes-Levy at email@example.com. The University of Mississippi adheres to the principle of equal educational and employment opportunity without regard to race, sex, color, creed or national origin. This policy extends to all programs and activities supported by the University. |

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A very basic tutorial on AddHandler Statement. In this project we used it to prevent a non-numerical values to be entered in the textbox controls.
You may also choose the event handler for each control from Designer.
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ALBANY, Ga. — Tickets are currently on sale for the Feb. 16 production of Jacquay Waller's "Blackman-o-logues," which will be held at the Albany Municipal Auditorium.
The "Blackman-o-logues" answers the question: "What runs through the head of a black man when he is confronted with the subject love?" Produced by the DreamCatcher Collective and DreamCatcher Productions, the play, which features nine distinct characters, will kick off at 8 p.m.
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Police did not release the Millers' address in a news release of the incident which was investigated by Barrington police and fire and rescue, the Chief Medical Examiner's Office and Strafford police.
The Chief Medical Examiner's Office determined the Millers died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a malfunctioning kitchen appliance.
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Don't you mean 25 games for Torres? One game of him is one too many, let alone 25.
Very stiff penalty. It should send a message. Stoll needs to be careful about launching himself into checks like he sometimes does.
Excessive suspension.
5 games for the hit. 20 for being a repeat offender??
Just trying 2 figure how it breaks down.
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Data Intelligence, Business Analytics
This is a good book but lack details. Here is a question.
In Chapter 10 for identifying high risk customers, the author selects a sample of customers and brings in 300+ variables from the credit bureau. After applying logistic regression, 62 variables are retained. Then the author doesn't say how to apply this model to the whole customer base. Should the company buys 62 variables for all customers from the credit bureau in order to use the model to produce risk scores for them.
You do not have to buy any additional database. If the logistic regression model comes out to be reliable and valid, with the help of the coefficients, an equation can be formulated which gives P(Y). By default probability more than or equal to .5 would mean category 1, else, category 0. Hope it helps....Ravi Sangal
Jason. The author is implying that it would be too costly and computationally inefficient to purchase and run a logistic regression on the whole population in order to determine the significant variables. So she chose a smaller sample. Once these variables are identified, they can be purchased for the entire population and then scored.
=Ralph Winters
Can anyone tell me how normally a credit bureau sell their data? Do they charges by # of records, by # of variables, or both?
Typically by # of Records. Sometimes it can be custom pricing based on the project.
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'Ordinary Hero' Who Stood up for Boy With Down's Syndrome to Be a Guest on Local Radio Program
Gainesville, GA – Continuing to share the inspirational and uplifting stories of the day, The Ken Coleman Show on WDUN AM550/FM102.9 will welcome Michael Garcia to the program Tuesday 1/29/13 at 6:20pm ET.
Ken Coleman has named Michael one of the program's "Ordinary Heroes" for his bravery last week when he stood up for the little boy with Down's Syndrome.
Michael is the server at Laurenzo's Prime Rib in Houston, TX who refused service to a couple who made rude comments about a little boy with Down's Syndrome.
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- n. A belief system with certain religious aspects, developed in 1952, focused on the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard.
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Wine Last Sold on: August 1, 2008
Titus Vineyards
Featured Wine:
2006 Napa Valley Zinfandel
Varietal: | Zinfandel |
Vineyard: | Estate Vineyard |
Region: | California: Napa Valley |
Total Allocation: | Very Limited |
Avg. Price: | $27.00 |
Wine Spies: | $22.95 |
Shipping Notice:
If you would like your order held for delivery after a specific date, please place your order and then email us with the Order Number and the date you'd like your package to leave our warehouse. We'll take care of the rest.
The Winery Says:
About This Wine:
Aromas of boysenberry, raspberry, and fresh black and white pepper are wrapped in dark baking chocolate and spices on the nose and translate through to the palate. A solid tannin structure integrates throughout but does not overpower this nearly full bodied dark and brooding Zin. With generous complexity and red fruit concentration the long finish is enhanced by barrel spice, vanilla and coconut notes imparted by the American Oak used to age this wine. Recommended drinking time is three to five years from vintage with a maximum suggested aging time of eight to ten years from vintage. We also recommend decanting this wine for about an hour prior to drinking.
About This Vintage:
The 2006 growing season got off to a late start with a cool spring and late rains. An intense heat spike in July resulted in temporary concern that it might harm the grapes, or shut down the vines, during this critical ripening period. Thankfully, August brought cooler weather that stayed with us up until harvest. Overall, the ripening season was long and steady. Waiting somewhat patiently for the grapes to come into perfect maturity and full ripeness, 2006 proved to be a grower's season in St. Helena because of the extended, evening ripening of each grape variety in our valley floor vineyards. All the fruit was harvested in alignment with our predictions avoiding everything coming in at once. Interestingly, harvest at Titus Vineyards began ten days later than we would typically end. The lengthy 2006 growing season gifted these wines with lively aromatics, well balanced flavor profiles with beautiful concentration, and solid structure that will benefit the wines long term.
About The Winery:
When the Titus story began, life in Napa Valley was simpler than it is today, and California's wine industry had yet to achieve its enormous potential. The vineyard Lee and Ruth Titus acquired in 1967 was planted to Mondeuce, Burger, and Golden Chasselas, varietals all but forgotten today, but prevalent before the emphasis in Napa Valley evolved from quantity to quality and from generic to varietal wines. Also grown were ringers like Pinot Noir, poorly suited to our warm, up-valley microclimate.
Now that we have over thirty years experience working the land, our vineyard is supported with disease resistant rootstock, planted to clones and varietals tuned to fit our vineyards' terrior, and farmed with a single purpose: to produce excellent quality wines rivaling the best in the world. Lee loved what was happening in Bordeaux at the time and decided those were the grape varieties he wanted to plant. And so it began, with Lee holding a book on Bordeaux in one hand and planting grapevines with the other saying, "you boys are going to need this some day." At that time, planting Malbec and Petit Verdot for example, was relatively unheard of and probably considered risky. Now, Phillip and Eric absolutely appreciate their father's foresight.
Lee Titus and his family came to California from Minnesota during the Depression. After graduating from Fresno State and serving in World War II, Lee attended medical school and became a radiologist. Meanwhile, Ruth Traverso grew up in San Francisco's North Beach, where her parents, immigrants from the Piemonte region of Italy, were involved in the family bakery business. During family vacations in Calistoga, Ruth helped friends harvest their grapes, giving her a love for Napa Valley and a kinship with grape farming.
Years later, having fallen in love, married and settled in the town of Sonoma with their four sons, Lee and Ruth began acquiring fifty acres in three separate parcels just north of St. Helena along the valley floor. Although they hoped one day to build a family operated winery, it would be more than twenty years before they crushed fruit for production of Titus Vineyards wines. Lee and Ruth spent those years raising their sons and producing grapes for other wineries, including Charles Krug, Beaulieu Vineyards, Quail Ridge, and Pine Ridge.
Ultimately, Lee and Ruth left the creation of Titus Vineyards wines up to their sons: Phillip works as winemaker for Titus Vineyards, while Eric manages the business and vineyards. Peter and Paul are now pursuing careers in horticulture and anthropology, respectively.
About The Vineyard:
Titus Vineyards Napa Valley Zinfandel is produced from grapes grown in our family vineyard on Silverado Trail just north of St. Helena. The 30+ year-old vines are planted on St. George rootstock and grown without irrigation or "dry-farmed". This old-world winegrowing practice produces low yields of concentrated fruit.
Following harvest, the grapes were de-stemmed but not crushed, allowing increased control over tannin extraction by minimizing the possibility of broken skins and split seeds. Following a 48-hour cold soak to extract color and flavor, the grapes underwent a warm fermentation, with pump-overs occurring twice daily, and were pressed shortly after dryness was achieved. The free-run wine was transferred to 20% new and 80% two year old American oak barrels, where it underwent malolactic fermentation. Petite Sirah was fermented and barrel aged separately, and blended into the Zinfandel prior to bottling.
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Mission Codename: The Cache of the Titus
Operative: Agent Red
Objective: Infiltrate Titus Vineyards to assess their fabled Zinfandel. If the quality is there secure a cache for our Operatives
Mission Status: Accomplished!
Current Winery:Titus Vineyards
Wine Subject: 2006 Titus Vineyards Napa Valley Zinfandel
Winemaker: Philip Titus
Backgrounder: Reports have been flooding in to Wine Spies Central Command about titus Vineyards and their ability to craft wines with insane QPR. For today's wine, we sent Agent Red undercover to the winery to taste the wine – and return with an able supply – IF it passed his test. Read Red's Tasting Notes and Mission Report below.
Wine Spies Tasting Profile:
Look – Inky dark garnet in color with burgundy-purple edges, a speedy surface that settles fast when swirled, and slow skinny legs that slowly descend down the side of the glass.
Smell – Deeply concentrated aromatics of dark fruit including raspberry, black currants, licorice (fresh anisette) pepper and oak, with follow-on aromas of spice and chocolate.
Feel – Smooth and light up-front, then dry, rich and full-bodied. Tannins and acidity merge to give this wine a very interesting texture and big mouth feel.
Taste – Layered flavors of dark fruit, ripe plum, raspberry, oak and pepper that sweetens slightly as it opens up.
Finish – This wine finishes very nicely, fading with hints of its pepper, fruit and oak.
Conclusion – I was blown away by this wine. So, too, was Agent Sparkle, my tasting companion for this wine. We both found it immediately inviting – and invigorating. This is a bold and lush and bountiful wine that hold everything in perfect balance. If you are looking to impress with a great dinner wine, this Zinfandel is a sure winner. Its big and bold flavors and aromas make it a pleasure to drink, and its acidity make it a perfect food wine. Some Zinfandels tend to overpower most foods. Not this wine. Could this be the perfect Zinfandel? Please let us know after you try some.
Mission Report:
I had the great fortune to visit Titus Vineyards a few days ago, and was able to walk the vineyards and kick the clumps of dirt with winemaker, Phil Titus.
Founded by Phil's father, Lee, the winery started as a family affair with wife Ruth and their two sons, Eric and Phil. For several years they produced grapes for other prestigious wineries, including Charles Krug, Beaulieu Vineyards, Quail Ridge, and Pine Ridge.
Ultimately, Phil and Eric, too over the family business. Today, Phil is Titus' winemaker, while Eric runs operations.
What follows is a transcript of my conversation with Phil, recorded as we walked through the vineyards on a beautiful Napa afternoon
Agent Red: Growing up around the vines and the business, I'm guessing that you been a wine guy your whole life. Am I right?
Phil Titus: Actually yes. I'm not good at much else. At least nothing that I could turn into a career. Wine is in my blood. As a kid, I found myself in the vineyards all of the time. Today, I could not imagine any other life for myself.
Red: What was your first family winery experience?
Phil: We'll the most memorable and the most significant early experience came when I worked to plant a vineyard with my Mom, and Dad and brother. This vineyard is producing the Zinfandel that you will be bringing to your Operatives soon. It was our first and last full-family project and it is a very special vineyard that turns out some very special wines.
Red: And since planting that vineyard, how consistently involved have you been with these vineyards?
Phil: I haven't missed a harvest since 1979!
Red: So, even when you were enrolled at U.C. Davis?
Phil: Yeah. And while other vineyards have come and gone, this Zinfandel vineyard has been producing great fruit and turning out great wines. The look like old vine Zin vines, don't they?
Red: Yeah, big and gnarly. Beautiful. Tell me, what's keeping you busy this time of year?
Phil: That could take a long time! Well, first off, we've just completed the bottling of our '06 reds and our '07 whites. Now its time to turn our attention to the coming harvest. With verasion here – the moment that first color appears in the grapes – the grapes tell us that harvest is about 6 to 8 weeks away.
Red: How are the grapes looking for this harvest?
Phil: Really great, actually. Not only is the color very consistent, the evenness of the color in a single cluster is perfect. This makes our decision on when to pick far easier. Even color means more better control over the quality of the ripening. Too much green on a cluster and you get more green qualities in the final wine.
Red: Were you affected by the recent frost?
Phil: We had the good fortune to avoid the problems that were found in higher elevations, where some growers lost half of their crops or more.
Red: So, where is your prediction for 2008 vintage wines?
Phil: Looking great! The fruit looks really fantastic, but we'll have a better sense once we harvest and get to crush.
Red: What about your '07 red? You must be playing with blending, right?
Phil: Yes, we have been lining up blind samples, tasting & determining the direction that the wines will take. We do this without knowing which wines are which. This helps us to have no preconceived notions about the wines, and allows us to taste for quality, regardless of which vineyards the juice came from. Its a fun time for us as it gives us a window into how our wines are progressing – and how they'll turn out. 2007 looks very promising!
Red: And what can you tell me about your 2006 Zinfandel?
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Joan W. Ruff of East Norwich, died at the age of 82 on November 20, 2012. She was born and raised in Bayside, NY.
She was the secretary of her senior class at Bayside High School. She graduated in three years.
In her 20s she worked for NY Telephone as an executive. She also represented the company at the introduction to the iconic Princess phone as the original "princess."
She and her late husband John Ruff Jr. lived for 50 years on Locust Avenue in East Norwich. They enjoyed a great relationship with their neighbors and the resident peacock, "Beauty" who lived in the Muttontown Preserve.
She carried on with the business her husband started, Oakland Supply Company, after his death. Although in her earlier years she flew a plane and logged many hours, she never drove a car.
Joan was a former superintendent of the Sunday School at Wesley United Methodist Church and a volunteer tour guide and naturalist at the Muttontown Preserve.
A girl scout herself, Ms. Ruff was a Girl Scout troop leader for many years. Her Brownie certificate is dated February 1940 and her Girl Scout card from Troop Number 4-28 is dated December, 1940.
Most recently, she was a resident at Oyster Bay Manor, Oyster Bay. She is survived by her daughter Janet, and her husband John Barone and their daughters Lauren and Suzanne. She will be fondly remembered by all those people whose lives she touched.
Visitation was at the M. A. Connell Funeral Home Inc., Huntington Station, on Sunday, Nov. 18. Interment was at the Brookville Cemetery, Brookville.
Donations in her memory can be made to: The Arthritis Foundation / Programs; 501 Walt Whitman Rd. Melville, New York 11747.
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The streets of Oyster Bay were full with enthusiastic supporters of the Oyster Bay High School PTSA, coming out in force to enjoy a Taste of the Town. This was the first annual Taste of the Town — Restaurant Stroll, and, judging by the crowds and the happy smiles in evidence all evening, it will be the first of many successful events.
This event, previously known as the Taste of the Gold Coast, had been held in catering facilities. This year, the committee felt strongly that they wanted to support the local restaurants and businesses that were impacted by Hurricane Sandy. The local restaurants and businesses are very generous to the community, whether to the PTSA, sports clubs or local nonprofits. The Chamber of Commerce enthusiastically supported the idea, and a wonderful concept came to life.
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"There won't be any fireworks on July 4," said Caroline DuBois. She said letters have gone out to residents of Cove Neck from the Dolans telling everyone the news. Charles and Helen Dolan have celebrated their wedding anniversary with fireworks on the Fourth of July for many years. Having attended one of them was a great boon. It was a massive production and needed the cooperation of their neighbors, who were all invited to the party. We parked in an area along the road and with our invitation to show, we were picked up by a van and driven to the estate.
The entire beachfront was filled with tables and chairs. Food stations dotted the area. There was a carousel in the section where you first arrived. The food was served on china with real silverware: no paper plates and plastic forks. We sat with a basketball pro and his lovely family. When the party ended there were teddy bears for the children and stationery for the ladies. You knew you had been to a great party.
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Glen Cove Boys & Girls Club held their Annual Golf Tournament, named for the late World Golf Hall of Famer Joseph C. Dey Jr., on Monday, May 6, at Meadow Brook Club in Jericho. Hugh R. O'Kane, President of Hugh O'Kane Electric Company, chaired this year's event.
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Spot the Rash Presenters will test your skills on pediatric dermatology issues, kicking off the meeting with a fun and exciting mental workout.
Where No One Has Gone Before In this section, we will look at infections that are not transferred from typical child-to-child interactions, but from causes we see less frequently such as international travel, STIs and tattoos and piercings.
Keynote Address Hear expert faculty discuss new developments and relevant updates concerning trending hot topics in the pediatric field. Saturday topic: Homeopathic Therapies
What's Your Diagnosis? See whether you can make the correct diagnosis regarding challenging mysterious illnesses and infections that pediatric specialists have encountered in their practices.
Vaccination – Protection from Infectious Diseases We will look at traditional aspects of vaccinations and also introduce The Business of Vaccines, so you can gain expert advice on how to make the best decisions on managing vaccinations within your day-to-day practice.
Top 10 Infectious Disease Articles of 2012 for the Pediatrician Our experts will carefully review journal articles published throughout the year and provide perspective and action items on the 10 most applicable to your daily practice.
Looking Beyond the Commonplace As requested by past attendees, experts will discuss less common infectious diseases as well as more common complications and challenges of pathogens, such as Group A Strep.
New Developments With the newest data from the RIVUR Study being released this year, we will look at that and hepatitis in this section.
The Viral Challenge One of the most challenging parts of pediatric practice can be handling viruses. Presenters will look at diagnostics, therapeutics and the febrile neonate.
Keynote Address Hear expert faculty discuss new developments and relevant updates concerning trending hot topics in the pediatric field. Sunday topic: The Febrile Neonate
Challenging Cases from Private Practice Presenters will take cases that challenged them in private practice and ask for input from other faculty members, academicians and the audience.
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2007-2008 Eagle Golf Preview
STATESBORO, Ga. Head golf coach Larry Mays and the Georgia Southern Eagles are ready to hit the links.
As summer turns into fall, the Eagles are eager to translate their hard work in the off-season into success. With their first opportunity in sight, Sep. 15, at the Gopher Invitational in Wayzata, Minn., the eighth-year head coach is pleased with the hard work that the student-athletes have displayed.
"Throughout our first couple weeks of practice, our team has had a real workman-type of attitude," said Mays. "The players have been grinding it out and putting in the necessary work to get the results that we want."
Although Mays loses All-Southern Conference golfer Bryan Jones from his arsenal due to graduation, the Eagles return six talented lettermen to the 2007-2008 roster. And with the welcome addition of three of the nation's top newcomers, Mays has a deep group of talented golfers to work with.
"The team feels a little deeper than in years past," said Mays. "Competition amongst themselves will give them that sense of urgency to earn their spot to play. It means that they'll be more battle-tested and ready for tournament play. With the competition for spots, it means that the guys going out to play on the tournaments will be ready to go."
The roster includes one senior, four juniors, two sophomores and three freshmen.
The lone senior, Chris Smith, returns for his final year as an Eagle after competing in all 12 tournaments during the 2006-2007 campaign. The Alpharetta, Ga. native finished fourth on the team in strokes average (74.92) and of the returning golfers, earned the team's best individual finish, tying for third at the Wolf Run Intercollegiate (Oct. 7-8). His score of 65 (-6) in the second round of the same tournament lasted as the team's lowest round of 18 for the season.
"Chris has come on pretty good these last couple years," said Mays. "He's a good team-leader and does a great job for us. He's had a great summer and we'll be looking for him to lead this team throughout the season."
Having also competed in all 12 tournaments last year, junior Jordan Johnstun (Evans, Ga.) comes back with the lowest strokes average (74.11) while sharing a low 54 score of 215 (-1) with two teammates. He finished tied for eighth at the SoCon Championship (Apr. 22) and earned three other top 15 finishes.
"Jordan had a big summer competing very well in some amateur tournaments," said Mays. "He's going to be a leader on the golf course. He's set pretty high expectations this year and we look for him to step up and shine on the golf course."
Juniors Drew Lethem (Camdenton, Mo.) and Ryan LeFevre (Boca Raton, Fla.) round out the team's upperclass. Lethem, who transferred from Odessa College to GSU at the beginning of 2007, gave the Eagles an extra boost. At The Intercollegiate (Apr. 13) Lethem shot the team's lowest 54-hole tally at 215 (-1), a score that was also repeated by Johnston and LeFevre throughout the season. Lethem earned two top-ten finishes, including a tie for fourth place at the Southern Conference tournament.
LeFevre saw action in all 12 tournaments last season, finishing the year with a 75.06 strokes average and three top-20 finishes, including a tie for 17th at the Linger Longer Invitational (May 13).
"We're looking for both of them to come in and be a steady force in the line up," explained Mays. "They've got plenty of experience and we look for them to step up a notch this season."
Junior Ryan Zabroske (Alpharetta, Ga.) and sophomores Matt Deal (Statesboro, Ga.) and Spencer Fulford (Rocky Mount, N.C.) return to add depth to the roster.
"Matt, Spencer and Ryan, though they didn't get a lot of experience last year, I know that they've been working hard on their game and I look forward for them to compete for a spot in the lineup throughout the year," added Mays.
A trio of highly touted freshmen Logan Blondell (Lakeland, Fla.), Kyle Cothran (Soddy Daisy, Tenn.) and Joe Monte (Chantilly, Va.) joins the squad as three of some of the top newcomers in the country.
"The three freshmen coming in all have extensive junior resumes," said Mays. "We hope for an immediate impact from these three. I wouldn't be surprised to see a freshman travel with us regularly each week. All three freshmen are hard workers and are looking to come in and earn their spot and lead the program into the future."
With a unique mix of experience and youth, Mays and the Eagles have definite and concrete goals set in place.
"We want to compete on a national level," explained Mays. "We feel that we're talented enough to compete with just about anybody and we feel we have a chance to win each golf tournament. We just want to get better each tournament and look to reclaim the Southern Conference title. And the overriding goal that we have is that we want to have our last tournament that we play in this season to be the NCAA Championship tournament."
But before then, the Eagles will pit their best golfers against some of the finest golf programs in the country, schools that compete regularly in the national tournament.
"Our schedule is one of the tougher schedules in the country," said Mays. "It's a good test, week in and week out. Top to bottom, it's a tough schedule."
Georgia Southern will take advantage of an opportunity to host two tournaments this year. In the fall, the Mizuno Southbridge Intercollegiate will be played at the Southbridge Golf Club in Savannah, Ga. (Oct. 15-16). The 6,922-yard, par-72 course will feature a field of 15 teams, including familiar conference foes Appalachian State, Davidson, Elon, Furman, Western Carolina and Wofford.
The Eagles will land in new territory to open up the spring portion of the season, participating in the PING Arizona Intercollegiate (Jan. 28-29) in Tucson, Ariz. The tournament will pit several teams from the West, including a list of some of last year's top 25 teams: Arizona State, Brigham Young, UCLA, UNLV and Tulsa.
Novelty turns into tradition as Georgia Southern plays the host school for the Schenkel E-Z-GO Invitational, Mar. 14-16 at the 6,962-yard, par-72 Forest Heights Country Club in Statesboro, Ga. The 29th installment of the tournament will feature a field of 18 schools: Alabama, UAB, Auburn, Augusta State, Boston College, Florida, Georgia Southern, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana State, Michigan State, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Notre Dame, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The Southern Conference Championship tournament will return to the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence, S.C., Apr. 20-22.
If the Eagles do not reclaim the SoCon title, they will still have a chance to continue into post-season play. A new NCAA rule this season dictates that to advance to post-season competition, teams that have not won an automatic bid as winners of their respective conferences must have at least a .500 wining percentage to be eligible for an at large bid.
Either way, with a rich history that includes 15 NCAA championship appearances and six conference titles, the Eagles have one goal in mind: the NCAA tournament.
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Santa Barbara Education Foundation was recently awarded $85,000 from the Women's Fund of Santa Barbara to fund a female outreach worker for the Youth Violence Prevention and Intervention Program.
The Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) promotes the private philanthropic support of public education, invests resources in our schools, and serves as an advocate for our schools. SBEF works to ensure a quality public school education with enhanced achievement for every student in our district.
On Saturday, October 13th, the Santa Barbara Education Foundation held its annual HOPE Awards, an opportunity to honor those who have made a significant contribution to public education. Our 2012 HOPE Award honorees were Assistant Superintendent Emilio Handall and the Women's Fund of Santa Barbara, which was represented by Carol Palladini.
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Pa. Law Enforcement Wants Easier Access to Your Internet Activities
Should law enforcement have easier access to Pennsylvanians' Internet records?
By Eric Boehm | PA Independent
HARRISBURG – Law enforcement officials say they should not have to go to a judge before seeking personal data about Internet users in Pennsylvania.
The state House is set to vote early next week on a bill that would allow law enforcement to obtain permission from a district attorney or attorney general – instead of requiring a warrant from a judge – to force internet service providers to turn over potentially sensitive personal data about what Pennsylvanians are doing online.
Advocates for the change say law enforcement should be given easier access to the data in order to track down and arrest predators targeting children on the Internet, but there are red flags being raised by civil liberties advocates.
Andy Hoover, legislative director for the Pennsylvania ACLU, said the bill breaks down barriers between the government and our personal information – and is a recipe for law enforcement authority abuse by taking judges out of the picture.
"A judge is a neutral, third-party observer, and that role is essential in protecting our rights," Hoover said. "This bill removes the judge from the process, and that's never a good thing."
Such subpoenas are already used in a wide variety of cases, and federal law allows them to be used to obtain information from internet service providers, but Pennsylvania law requires a warrant from a judge unless ISPs turn over information willingly.
The law enforcement crowd is lining up in support of the bill, starting at the very top.
In a letter voicing support for the bill, Attorney General Kathleen Kane pointed to the results of the 2012 Internet Crimes Against Children task force, which found nearly 30,000 IP addresses in Pennsylvania had downloaded files containing child pornography.
In the letter, Kane wrote that allowing administrative subpoenas would let law enforcement more quickly prosecute those cases.
"We can prosecute the offenders today," she wrote. "We just need the legislature to give us the tools."
Shawn Wagner, president of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, said in a similar letter that the electronic information obtained by internet service providers is vital to locating the sources of crimes like the possession of child pornography.
Requiring a court order in each case makes it impossible to slow those types of crimes, he wrote, though he also acknowledged that many internet service providers are "extremely responsive" to law enforcements' informal requests for information as part of an investigation.
An important factor is that administrative subpoenas are more open-ended than search warrants.
While a warrant gives law enforcement the right to search a particular person or location, a subpoena can be enforced in other jurisdictions – even beyond Pennsylvania's borders.
Law enforcement groups like the District Attorneys Association see that as a good thing. Hoover says it's a dangerous expansion of police power that violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches.
Regardless of concerns, the bill seems poised to move quickly through the legislature. It moved out of the House Judiciary Committee this week with nearly unanimous support, and is scheduled to go before the full House on Monday.
State Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Montgomery, cast the only dissenting vote in the committee. She said she is interested in appropriate law enforcement measures to go after online predators, but decided to vote "no" because of lingering questions about the bill.
"I worry anytime we take away court review," Dean said. "Let's make sure we craft these things carefully and do not bypass court review except in special circumstances."
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Don Talenti
7:01 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
This avoids the checks and balances that are in place for the convenience of the police. Hardly a good reason to circumvent the oversight of the court concerning searches of online records. These records don't disappear into thin air, and are kept for years by Internet Service Providers. I see no reason to allow the DA, who works in alliance with the police, to have the power to issue a broad subpoena for a fishing expedition, without prior judicial review. I have to agree with Representative Dean. We've become enough of a police state over the last decade.
The argument that they could prosecute these cases more quickly is ludicrous, as is the statement that they have the IPs of those who downloaded porn. If you have the IPs, go to a judge and get a warrant, then go to the Internet Service Provider for records relating to that IP. We all know most requests for search warrants are granted. So the change proposed in this bill merely erodes the protection of private citizens, and requires us to trust that the police won't abuse the process. Sure they won't.
8:24 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
I agree with your comments completely. The Police and Government already has to much of a window into our private lives. NEXT will the government be in our financial records without a warrant and monitor our private e-mail and jokes we send over the internet.
8:39 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Agree. This is classic over-reach. Need to stop it now.
9:17 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Absolutely not. No way. Do the job tbe right way. Why does it seem as though our government is seeking to circumvent our constitutional rights. They use the wost case scenario to justify the overuse of power.
10:04 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Again, absolutely not. Never!
Why should the goverrnment have easy access to peronal information. Let them follow the existing rules and boundaries - which were put into place for very good reasons. They can do too much damage, without much effort, as it is.
David Holewinski
10:49 am on Monday, March 18, 2013
Who in the heck thought up this plan? The checks and balances were put in place to protect the citizens. We don't need to circumvent our constitution and the rights that it holds for us. Our government is trying to do away with the constitution every chance they get. FOLLOW THE RULES
12:33 pm on Monday, March 18, 2013
Few would disagree with or speak out against nabbing child predators, and how clever it is for those advocating for this legislation to use THAT as a justification. Nevertheless, it's a slippery slope, and as some have already stated a vast government overreach into the privacy of citizens. What's next--the state randomly and discreetly monitoring your online purchases (for sales tax purposes) and/or your online banking records? A piece of legislation that essentially grants broad-based powers in covertly monitoring communications is a red flag. Something more specific dealing strictly with child predator investigations might be okay, but wait...that already exists. Law enforcement needs to get a court order, which can be a fairly quick procedure when there's evidence to support the warrant. No, this legislation is about much broader powers to the state cloaked as something innocuous that most people would agree with. Legislators should not be hoodwinked into being politically correct (supporting the tracking down of child predators) and in the process throw constitutionally-protected civil liberties out the window.
Jeff Lugar
7:39 am on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Unless you're doing something illegal or unseemly online, there's really nothing to be fearful of here.
Don Talenti
7:53 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
That is a remarkably naive statement. You SHOULD fear loss of privacy and basic protection from unrestrained police power. Wow. I cannot believe you said that.
You assume the police would use their new search power only for legitimate reasons. Common sense, human nature, and plenty of experience dictate otherwise.You also assume that someone has to fear something in order to have privacy. I have curtains in my house. Nothing "illegal or unseemly" is going on, yet it is my choice if the curtains are closed, and NO BUSINESS of the police what is going on behind them - unless they can show enough cause to get a warrant. In America, we are presumed innocent. It is not up TO ME to give up privacy in order to prove innocence. I should not be presumed to be up to something nefarious because I don't want my private activity scrutinized at the whim of a public servant.
Tell me, would you think it OK for a police officer to approach you in the street, for WHATEVER reason he may decide, and root through your wallet and briefcase, reading everything, and documenting it, THEN deciding if a crime occurred?
8:38 pm on Tuesday, March 19, 2013
@Don Talenti ~ Amen! What's the saying about "absolute power corrupts absolutely"?


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I can't help but notice that Amazon re: Invent was announced a few scant weeks after the OpenStack Conference generated tons of buzz for the open source cloud operating system. As I've had cause to note already earlier today, Amazon Web Services doesn't have much to fear from OpenStack and its service provider ecosystem in an immediate sense, but it definitely seems that the time is right for AWS to remind its developers and partners why they're in business with them in the first place – or else risk developer attrition, the kiss of death for a modern cloud platform.
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i found this display kinda cool,,ive never seen anything like this upclose and at eyelevel.
i found this display kinda cool,,ive never seen anything like this upclose and at eyelevel.
Man!That's a beautiful piece of engineering and I don't think I've ever seen that aircraft before,cool find,thanks for sharing the pics!
The sad part in viewing such a mechanical wonder if the USA even has the skills, machinery, and aptitude to turn out such a stunning product. Doubtful.
..."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" -Jim Elliot
i think we have the engineers to design something as advanced to today's technology as that was to yesteryear's. but we don't have the facilities to mass produce things like we did back then.
some people might say things are "going to hell in a handcart". i disagree.
i think we've parked the cart, and are standing on the stoop.
Anyone who's seen the innards of a modern turbine engine would know we still have a few clever engineers and talented machinists left.
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Volume 23 - Article 20 | Pages 549-586
Circular migration patterns and determinants in Nairobi slum settlements
Date received: | 30 Oct 2009 |
Date published: | 10 Sep 2010 |
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Keywords: | Africa, demographic surveillance system, event history analysis, internal migration, Nairobi, slum settlements, urban integration |
DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.20 |
This paper measures migration flows and determinants in two slum settlements in Nairobi City between 2003 and 2007. The results confirm the high intensity of migration with a quarter of the total slum population and a third of those aged 15-30 being renewed annually. A circular migration system is at play whereby the majority of slum dwellers are short-term migrants spending on average less than 3 years in the area. Migration is more intense during early adulthood (20-24), and despite very similar determinants across gender, mobility is more intense among women compared to men. The increasing feminization of migration is likely to change the face of slum settlements, resulting in more balanced sex ratios, in line with city-wide trends in Nairobi over the past half century. The high population turnover is due to the insecurity of livelihoods, tenure, and poor basic amenities and social services in slum settlements.
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Philippe Bocquier - Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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1. Before you start reading!
This page is a quick howto on migrating from PT_PAX to XATTR_PAX flags. It presupposes the reader knows what PaX is all about. See our Pax Quickstart for a broad coverage. For an in-depth explanation of how PaX works, see the Homepage of The PaX Team.
2. The three ways of marking PaX flags: EI_PAX, PT_PAX and XATTR_PAX
PaX provides various protections against abuses of memory. Some of these protections can only be enabled or disabled by (re)configuring the kernel and recompiling/rebooting. However a few important ones (PAGEEXEC, EMUTRAMP, MPROTECT, RANDMMAP and SEGMEXEC) can be tweaked when the system is up and running by marking the PaX flags on the ELF objects of the program you want to run. Since some programs need to use memory in a way normally forbidden by PaX, we may have to relax some restrictions on a per program basis.
Historically, the PaX flags have been stored in one of three different locations. At first, they were housed in the ELF header of the objects (EI_PAX), but this broke with updates to glibc. They were next moved to an ELF program header (PT_PAX) and this was mostly satisfactory, except for those occassion programs where adding such a header was problematic for one reason or another. The next generation places the flags in the extended attributes of the filesystem(s). As long as all the filesystems and the utilities working with those files/filesystems respects the extended attributes, this is the best solution because it essentially does not touch the ELF binaries themselves.
3. Migrating from PT_PAX to XATTR_PAX
Marking the ELF header (EI_PAX) has been completely deprecated in Gentoo. If you have an ancient system which still uses EI_PAX, then its probably so broken by this point that no migration is possible anyhow. Start over.
Marking the ELF program header (PT_PAX) is still supported, but that support will slowly disappear. As of glibc-2.16, the elf.h header file will no longer contain the definitions of the PT_PAX_FLAGS program header, nor of the values of the PaX flags that live there ( bug #440018). At some point in the future, the patch against binutils which includes the PT_PAX_FLAGS program header will also go. At that point only XATTR_FLAGS will remain. You might want to get ahead of the game and migrate now.
The process of migration is safe because at no point will we actually dump the PT_PAX flags, so we can always revert if something goes wrong. The essential caveat to remember is that the kernel ultimately decides whether to use PT_PAX or XATTR_PAX (or both). So you can have both markings on an ELF object and have the kernel read one and ignore the other. Note that if you enable both PT_PAX and XATTR_PAX in the kernel, and you create an XATTR_PAX field, then the kernel expects both fields to be identical, otherwise neither is respected. It is okay to enable both fields provided you don't create XATTR_PAX; then, the PT_PAX field is fully respected. We can use this as part of the migration; but in general, we do not recommend setting both unless there is a good reason. Just switch from one to the other, ie PT_PAX xor XATTR_PAX.
So, starting from a stock PT_PAX system, you can migrate to XATTR_PAX as follows:
4. Testing whether the migration worked and XATTR_PAX flags are respected
So did the migration work? And is the kernel recognizing XATTR_PAX markings? You can verify that the migration worked by spot checking with paxctl-ng. Try something like the following:
Code Listing 4.1: Spot checking migration with paxctl-ng
# paxctl-ng -v /bin/* .... /bin/uncompress: ELF ERROR: elf_kind() fail: this is not an elf file. <--- This is not really an ELF object, expect failure PT_PAX : not found XATTR_PAX: not found /bin/vdir: <--- Good! No XATTR_PAX flags means we get the default PT_PAX : -e--- <--- Only 'e' (don't emulate trampolines) is the default setting. XATTR_PAX: not found /bin/ypdomainname: <--- Good! Both PT_PAX and XATTR_PAX are identical PT_PAX : -em-- XATTR_PAX: -em-- .... # paxctl-ng -v /lib/* .... /lib/libz.so.1.2.7: <--- Even libraries should have matching flags (here its the default) PT_PAX : -e--- XATTR_PAX: not found /lib/modules: open(O_RDWR) failed: cannot change PT_PAX flags <--- This is a directory, expect failure ELF ERROR: elf_begin() fail: (null) PT_PAX : not found XATTR_PAX: not found ....
To check if the kernel is recognizing XATTR_PAX markings, we'll use a test suite from the sys-apps/elfix package. We'll have to checkout the git repo since the ebuild doesn't run tests. They are tricky and can give lots of false negatives if you don't have the right combination of PT_PAX versus XATTR_PAX in both userland and kernel. You can proceed as follows:
Code Listing 4.2: Using elfix test suite to see if XATTR_PAX is working
# git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/elfix.git # cd elfix # ./autogen.sh .... # ./configure --disable-ptpax --enable-xtpax --enable-tests .... # make .... # cd tests/pxtpax/ # ./daemontest.sh ================================================================================ RUNNIG DAEMON TEST NOTE: 1) This test is only for amd64 and i686 2) This test will fail on amd64 unless the following are enabled in the kernel: CONFIG_PAX_PAGEEXEC CONFIG_PAX_EMUTRAMP CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT CONFIG_PAX_RANDMMAP 3) This test will fail on i686 unless the following are enabled in the kernel: CONFIG_PAX_EMUTRAMP CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT CONFIG_PAX_RANDMMAP CONFIG_PAX_SEGMEXEC ................................................................................ ................................................................................ ................................................................................ ... Mismatches = 0 ================================================================================
No mismatches! It worked. What the test is doing is marking a daemon with every possible combination of PaX flags, starting it, checking if its running with the expected flags, and reporting. If you want to have fun with this, try enabling PT_PAX and disabling XATTR_PAX when you configure elfix, but keep only XATTR_PAX support in the kernel. It will fail miserably as no PaX flags are respected.
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Summary: A quick guide on migrating PaX flags from PT_PAX to XATTR_PAX.
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